From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: numbers instead of accented letters... Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:21:16 +0200 Message-ID: <83h8g5jfgj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4E21DAC8-443B-4BFF-9C1A-2B6AB49AF3D5@gmail.com> <83lg5hkerb.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543163089 28915 195.159.176.226 (25 Nov 2018 16:24:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 16:24:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 25 17:24:45 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gQxDA-0007QE-TZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 17:24:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60350 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQxFH-0000Za-Ap for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 11:26:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52950) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQxEJ-0000TO-HZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 11:25:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQx9m-0007XP-MF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 11:21:18 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54429) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQx9l-0007WM-D0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 11:21:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3920 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gQx9k-0004xF-LL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 11:21:13 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Sun, 25 Nov 2018 13:22:41 +0900) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118753 Archived-At: > From: Jean-Christophe Helary > Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 13:22:41 +0900 > > >> (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8) > >> (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) > >> (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8) > >> (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8) > >> (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) > >> (when (display-graphic-p) > >> (setq x-select-request-type '(UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING))) > > > > On what OS is that? > > macOS Then I'm not sure the above is right, and you should remove that. Although it doesn't seem to be the root cause of your problem. > > Also, what other non-ASCII characters do you have in your .emacs.el? > > Most of my comments are written in French so there are a few others. I think you will have to review all of them. Look for those which are shown as a single octal escape, not 2 octal escapes one after the other. If nothing else help, bisect your .emacs.el to find the part which causes this, and if looking at it doesn't provide a clue, post that part here.