On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 09:12:45PM +0200, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:

[...]

> >I find this a bit confusing still. What character is entered by Emacs 
> >when I type ä on my swedish keyboard? When I look at the character ä 
> >in Emacs with (following-char) it in both test files returns 2276. Is 
> >that what I would expect in the iso-8859-1 test file? (It starts with 
> ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>)

Ah. You have to distinguish between Emacs's internal representation
(that's possibly the 2276 you mention), which doesn't change (al least
unless you try hard ;) and what is in the file (how Emacs writes or
interprets what it reads). You can change those things changing the
coding system (look for something like `multilingual environment').

You can see what coding system is active by doing
`M-x describe-coding-system´.

HTH
-- tomás