Non-ASCII characters in Emacs 21.2.1

Non-ASCII characters in Emacs 21.2.1

[Kpn]

Hi all,

I am just starting to use GnuEmacs 21.2.1 after installing a GnuLinux
Red Hat distribution 8.0.

I am trying to write a text in spanish (with its non-Ascii characters) 
and the
results are not satisfactory. I use Another-Level-Up window manager 
(based on FVWM)
 and the result on the screen runs well: I see the accents and other 
non-ASCII charcters but
the buffer is not correctly saved. By invoking:
$> more archive

 I see  that the non-ASCII character has not been correctly saved.

On reediting the archive:
$> emacs archive&

The non-ASCII charcter are now incorrectly prompted on the screen. Of 
course texing the archive does not make a correct dvi file.

I would appreciate some help.

Re: Non-ASCII characters in Emacs 21.2.1

[Kai Großjohann]

Kpn <kpnnpk@terra.es> writes:

> I am trying to write a text in spanish (with its non-Ascii characters)
> and the
> results are not satisfactory. I use Another-Level-Up window manager
> (based on FVWM)
>  and the result on the screen runs well: I see the accents and other
>  non-ASCII charcters but
> the buffer is not correctly saved. By invoking:
> $> more archive
>
>  I see  that the non-ASCII character has not been correctly saved.

Rumor has it that Redhat has changed to Unicode as the default
locale.  Type locale in a shell to see if this is the case.  Maybe
you will be happier with LANG=es_ES or something like this.

For opening old, wrong, files it might work to do C-x RET c utf-8 RET
C-x C-f /path/to/file RET.

If this wasn't it, please show us the file that got saved, and tell
us what you see on screen after opening the file.
-- 
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.

Re: Non-ASCII characters in Emacs 21.2.1

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi,


Kpn <kpnnpk@terra.es> writes:

> I am just starting to use GnuEmacs 21.2.1 after installing a
> GnuLinux Red Hat distribution 8.0.

> I am trying to write a text in spanish (with its non-Ascii
> characters) and the results are not satisfactory. 

Non-ASCII is a bit vague ;-).  You need to determine how these
characters are encoded and handled by Emacs and by your environment to
get to the root of the problem.

> I see the accents and other non-ASCII charcters but the buffer is
> not correctly saved.

Put the cursor on a non-ASCII character in Emacs and type

  M-x describe-char-after RET

What does the resulting help buffer say about the character set?

While you are in the buffer that you want to save, type

  M-x describe-coding-system RET

What is the result of that?

> By invoking:
>
> $> more archive

What is the character encoding that you use there?  Can you type

 $> echo ñ | od -t x1

on your terminal, so we can see an example of what you use there?

> The non-ASCII charcter are now incorrectly prompted on the
> screen. Of course texing the archive does not make a correct dvi
> file.

What encoding does your version of TeX expect?


Hope this helps, benny