Re: problems displaying german "umlaute"

[Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@online.de>]

TomSW schrieb:
> On Jul 3, 8:07 pm, Rainer Stengele <rainer.steng...@online.de> wrote:
> 
>>>> I am using textfiles (actually org-mode text) both on windows emacs 23
>>>> (emacsw32-20090226) and under different linux variants (kubuntu,
>>>> sidux) some running emacs 22 and some emacs 23.
>>>> The problem is that the "umlauts" shown in the windows emacs without
>>>> problems are shown as code under linux.
> 
> It looks as if you are opening utf-8 files as ascii or some other
> unsuitable encoding. Try opening them as utf-8. For example, open the
> file, then use the command M-x revert-buffer-with-coding-system to
> reload the file with a different encoding. Specify the coding system
> as "utf-8-unix". Does this fix the problem?

yes!

> 
> If it does, the second question is why Emacs isn't using the correct
> encoding to start with. Load the file again, and check the value of
> the variables enable-multibyte-characters and default-enable-multibyte-
> characters. They should both be t - are they?

enable-multibyte-characters is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is t
Local in buffer *Help*; global value is t

default-enable-multibyte-characters is a variable defined in `C source 
code'.
Its value is t



So yes they are both "t". Now how can I set the right config option?
Strange thing is that another file I do load (another orgmode file) 
always comes up correctly.


thanx and regards,
Rainer

> 
> regards,
> Tom SW
>