Re: emacs and UTF-8

[Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>]

"knubee" <knubee@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm trying to find some summary explanation of the different ways Emacs
> handles UTF-8. There seem to be many different possible settings
> (set-language-environment and set-default-encoding-system and ...) --
> and there seem to be distinctions between reading, displaying, writing,
> etc. I have not been able to find anything that explains these
> distinctions. So far, I haven't found a way to set one variable
> somewhere so that makes everything within emacs read, write, and
> display UTF-8. Is there such a variable?
>
> At the moment I am able to write and display Swedish characters within
> Emacs. However:
>
> - if I reply to an email, the cited version will be full of junk
> characters instead of the Swedish characters (which display fine in the
> original email I recieved). My mail application is VM, if that makes
> any difference.
>
> - if I run a Scheme program on a data file that includes Swedish
> characters, the returned values will include junk characters for the
> Swedish ones (and again, in this case, I am able to open the file and
> see the Swedish characters perfectly).
>
> Aside from solving these *particular* problems I would like to find
> some good *model* for how Emacs handles UTF-8.
>
> I'm running Emacs 21.3 under Debian, and below are some settings from
> .emacs file.
>
> (set-language-environment 'UTF-8)
> (set-default-coding-systems             'utf-8)
> (setq file-name-coding-system           'utf-8)
> (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (setq coding-system-for-write           'utf-8)
> (set-keyboard-coding-system             'utf-8)
> (set-terminal-coding-system             'utf-8)
> (set-clipboard-coding-system            'utf-8)
> (set-selection-coding-system            'utf-8)
>
> thanks for any help.

VM communicates with sendmail using the process-coding-system

(setq default-process-coding-system '(utf-8 . utf-8))

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