Re: Using babel

[Hadron <hadronquark@googlemail.com>]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 22.08.2007 um 15:18 schrieb Hadron:
>
>> So why is the text returned from Babel full of escaped characters?
>>
>> e.g
>>
>> Der schnelle braune Fuchs sprang \303\274ber die Br\303\274cke.
>
> The buffer isn't in UTF-8 encoded?
>
> ;   oct   dec   hex    UCS2    UTF-8
> ;=====================================
> ü = 374 = 252 = FC = U+00FC =    C3 BC : LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH
> DIAERESIS
>
> Octal 303 is hex C3, octal 274 is hex BC. Both are no regular
> characters in your buffer's encoding, so they're presented in octal
> and so "Der schnelle braune Fuchs sprang \303\274ber die Br\303
> \274cke." is the sentence "Der schnelle braune Fuchs sprang über die
> Brücke." presented to you as UTF-8 encoded inside a non-UTF-8 encoded
> buffer.
>
> Tell babel to not return UTF-8 or change your buffer's encoding.

But I can type ü,ä,ö in the same buffer and they appear as they ought to.

What do you suggest to "encode" the buffer?

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