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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: locale -> coding system
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:52:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831u38h6ci.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e756fbe9-aef5-4dea-92e9-eb4e5a669591@googlegroups.com>

> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 22:33:29 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
> 
> On my debian desktop running xfce, emacs by default goes into unicode mode
> On my recentest ubuntu running unity, emacs shows a '1' instead of a 'U' and messes up non-ASCII characters unless I manually make it unicode by some means or other, like 
> ;; -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> or just setting it or whatever
> 
> 1. How do I make emacs choose unicode in all cases?

 (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

> 2. There is some misconfiguration outside of emacs... where to look?

 $ env | fgrep -e LC -e LANG



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-26  6:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-26  5:33 locale -> coding system Rustom Mody
2013-10-26  6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-10-26  8:28   ` Teemu Likonen

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