Re: desktop and encodings

[Peter Petersen <ppetersen@despammed.com>]

* Mads Jensen <spam@raptus.dk> schrieb:

> 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 :-/ 
>  
<...>
>
> 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 ¥...


Hi,

>From a text console I launch Emacs like this:

LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 exec filterm - dynafont emacs -nw --eval
"(set-keyboard-coding-system 'latin-9)"

(LC_CTYPE doesn't even seem to be needed...)

filterm is part of the "konwert" and "konwert-filters" packages, and
"dynafont" is one of its filters allowing me to read and reply to utf-8
texts (for instance when using the newsreader Gnus).

I described some problems with filterm recently, but was able to solve
them (now control-g works again!). filterm and dynafont switch your
console to utf-8 mode and also take care to chose a utf-8 capable screen
font etc.


This is just something that crossed my mind - I don't know if this fits
to your situation.


Let's see:

æ ø å

€

äöü

ß

éèê

ñ


;-)



Best regards from Germany
Peter Petersen