[ESS] latin-1 in windows

[Rodney Sparapani]

Vincent Goulet wrote:
> Le mar. 09 déc. à 12:48, Rodney Sparapani a écrit :
>
>> And for the emacs gurus out there, where does .emacs go now:  I'm 
>> guessing
>> %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\.emacs.d?
>
> [On Windows]
>
> My experience when I started playing with GNU Emacs on Windows (circa 
> 2001) was that Emacs would hang whenever you switched back and forth 
> between Emacs and another application if the HOME environment variable 
> was not set. Don't ask me how I found that out, though.
>
> (I didn't check with a recent version if this is still true.)
>
> For this reason, my distribution of GNU Emacs for Windows sets the 
> HOME environment variable iff it does exist already. The default value 
> is %USERPROFILE%.
>
> Cheers
>
> Vincent
Hi Vincent:

I decided to to do some testing and work on README a bit. 
If HOME is not set, then the default
is "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data" for GNU Emacs.  For XEmacs, you
need to set HOME, otherwise ~ behaves strangely (does it default to
PWD?).

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