From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't find character, but can replace it? Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 23:57:34 +0200 Message-ID: <4B2FB68C-F0BF-4445-863A-735D2895D44D@Web.DE> References: <39a66e4d-8577-4fd7-acd9-42ad0b39ba87@d21g2000vbm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249855303 14541 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2009 22:01:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 22:01:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: djc Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 10 00:01:36 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MaGSN-0000mx-99 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:01:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54787 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MaGSM-0005IY-Kb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MaGRc-00057S-Be for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:00:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MaGRX-000546-Mw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:00:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50757 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MaGRX-00053x-G6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:00:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:55446) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MaGRW-0000Dz-SW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:00:43 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3BBF1120FD6E; Sun, 9 Aug 2009 23:57:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [91.35.227.82] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #314) id 1MaGOc-0002Ye-00; Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:57:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: <39a66e4d-8577-4fd7-acd9-42ad0b39ba87@d21g2000vbm.googlegroups.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18d309Tykuli89OkDntcTg5KKZUotBIlzBmG9Xd Kg6Cq7pdNFzKwePNNwVn0EqAHbfTSZ+aPg60jmxhYgl3s1R1Zm nplynN4dEkqQBw/MVLOA== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:67014 Archived-At: Am 09.08.2009 um 16:38 schrieb djc: > The problem was in one of my customization entries: > > '(enable-multibyte-characters nil) > > When I disabled that, By commenting or removing this line you did not disable anything but =20 *enable* GNU Emacs to work correctly, use UTF-8 (with usually more =20 than one byte for one character). > emacs once again behaved as I expected. > > The other behavior is confusing. Worth a bug report? To yourself? Read the documentation and understand that you are using =20= a multi-byte/Unicode application. Unibyte can easily be accomplished =20 by using an environment variable like LC_CTYPE with a value that =20 corresponds to some 7- or 8-bit encoding. -- Mit friedvollen Gr=FC=DFen Pete Eat the rich =96 the poor are tough and stringy.