From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mads Jensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: desktop and encodings Date: 23 May 2005 16:13:54 +0200 Organization: TDC Totalloesninger Message-ID: <87r7fyuj19.fsf@madamex.madamex.dk> References: <873bsj2olr.fsf@madamex.madamex.dk> <87psvkig3m.fsf@madamex.madamex.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116857969 529 80.91.229.2 (23 May 2005 14:19:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 14:19:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 23 16:19:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaDkY-0002w3-Lk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 16:17:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DaDo1-0001R5-NA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 10:21:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.197.19.230 Original-X-Trace: 1116857640 dread16.news.tele.dk 659 80.197.19.230:19967 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131472 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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:26928 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26928 Peter Dyballa writes: > That's probably the reason why you have these problems! Set LANG to > Danish in some ISO 8859 encoding or in UTF-8! Maybe da_DA.UTF-8 ... I tried setting the LANG variable to both da_DA, da_DA.utf-8, da_DA.iso-8859-1 plus en_US... (the same LANG variables as mentioned before, just with a different language), but that did not help :-/ > The other thing you can do: give all your files with non-US ASCII > content in the header a remark like: > > ;;; -*- mode: Text; coding: iso-8859-4; -*- > GNU Emacs will learn from that this text files contents is Northern ISO > Latin. Did not help either. I tried writing "æøå" in my ~/.bashrc, which I've set to UTF-8 with C-x RET f RET utf-8 RET and tested with all the aforementioned locales, but same result, æøå gets turned into something like Â¥... I tried searching groups.google.com, but no help to find there :-( Thanks for the help. -- Mads Jensen - mail sent to address ends in /dev/null s/spam/madsj for emailing me Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher von Braun