From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and UTF-8 Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:54:48 +0200 Organization: [posted via Easynet Spain] Message-ID: <87hdhqjyvb.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: <1114710292.436403.218420@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114728869 9461 80.91.229.2 (28 Apr 2005 22:54:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:54:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 29 00:54:24 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DRHta-00054b-26 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:54:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DRHzn-0006DZ-4y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:00:35 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!easynet-monga!easynet.net!easynet-post2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ys8kSJ8wyUU3rPI4jC6BT8yvjSw= Original-Lines: 50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.93.174.79 Original-X-Trace: DXC=N^6?6^\oOADJB3=;K1OMjMEY<>`XO4V7M>Uh 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:26126 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26126 "knubee" 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)) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ This is a signature virus. Add me to your signature and help me to live