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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: searching for non ascii characters
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 22:55:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87699915a46e0e4d2d83f2321d17aa86@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u3bpsulsx.fsf@cwazy.co.uk>


Am 02.08.2005 um 22:27 schrieb Radomir Hejl:

> Hello,
> when in a text mode, I usually use input method. I am able to find any 
> character
> with C-s. After saving and reading the file from a disc non ascii 
> characters
> cannot be found. When I do C-u C-x C-= on non ascii char before saving 
> I see
> a charset latin-iso8859-2. Doing C-u C-x C-= after saving there's 
> usually
> mule-unicode-0100-24ff or latin-iso8859-1 charset.
>
> So now I can only search with success for ascii chars. What should I 
> trim in
> emacs so that the searching be efficient?
>

Put a line like

	;;; -*- mode: Text; coding: iso-8859-2; -*-

in the file's header. Could be a

	(prefer-coding-system   'iso-latin-2-unix)

is already OK. The environment variable LC_CTYPE is important: GNU 
Emacs sets a few things after this. In particular 
default-buffer-file-coding-system gets derived from this. Then there's 
file-coding-system-alist ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

Bake Pizza not war!

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-02 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-02 20:27 searching for non ascii characters Radomir Hejl
2005-08-02 20:55 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.2370.1123016502.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-08-03 13:28   ` rahed
2005-08-03 14:09     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2456.1123078766.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-08-03 14:52       ` rahed
2005-08-03 15:11         ` Peter Dyballa

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