From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Koornwinder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diacritics in emacs but not in emacsclient Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 10:35:36 +0200 Message-ID: <20140703083536.GA31852@staffweb2.ic.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404376604 29361 80.91.229.3 (3 Jul 2014 08:36:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 08:36:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 03 10:36:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X2cVP-00029G-MK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 10:36:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58491 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2cVP-0005Fp-5f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 04:36:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56223) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2cUy-0004w3-Sp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 04:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2cUq-0005Ay-0L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 04:36:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ezel.ic.uva.nl ([146.50.108.158]:51886) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X2cUp-00055C-Oh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2014 04:35:59 -0400 Original-Received: from staffweb2.ic.uva.nl (staffweb2.ic.uva.nl [146.50.61.62]) by ezel.ic.uva.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s638ZasV018373; Thu, 3 Jul 2014 10:35:37 +0200 Original-Received: by staffweb2.ic.uva.nl (Postfix, from userid 1038400) id D7871A5F; Thu, 3 Jul 2014 10:35:36 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 146.50.108.158 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98525 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > > From my mac, working in a console window provided by Terminal, I am used to > > login by ssh on a server which is running on bash. > > What OS is the server running? Some GNU/Linux distribution? By uname -a I get: GNU/Linux 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64 > > It has GNU Emacs 23.1.1. > > I've seen older, but it's its best years are definitely in the past ;-) > > > However, when I prepare an email message in mutt in an emacs window > > provided by emacsclient then I cannot produce these diacritics. > > The mentioned symbols now give C( and C6 . > > What is the locale your use on your server? Maybe you need to tell your > server that it's running inside a utf-8 terminal (e.g. set $LANG to > something like "nl_NL.UTF-8"). echo $LANG gives: en_US.UTF-8 Tom Koornwinder