From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Schr=F6der?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Charset problem Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:11:02 +0200 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190029240 21121 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2007 11:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:40:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 17 13:40:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IXExy-0004zn-QM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:40:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IXExx-0001OO-D0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeedt0.toon.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1190027413 03 1128 VFpJ1iTOHXN2IOO 070917 11:10:13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: ZkJlC0ZrweSbds-9dXGnmnkVvTAM3sHujKv2WxS-IDNAb+MB+y1CcR User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152123 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:47634 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa wrote: >> Is it possible to make Emacs send me the ISO-8859-1 encoded umlauts as >> UTF-8 characters? > > Of course. When you launch GNU Emacs make it see environment variable > LC_CTYPE be like de_DE.UTF-8. Then it would automatically switch to > UTF-8 use. Otherwise this statement in some init file can make it: > > (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) > > Problems can arise when the file-name-coding-system is now different ... Ok, I seem to have found the cause for all of my problems. I have been using an Emacs init file for several years now, without ever having a closer look to it. It contained the following line: (standard-display-european 1) which I assume was useful long ago, but was now not only obsolete, but even harmful. After I removed this command from the init file the system behaves as expected. I now also finally see a correct mode line. Thanks a lot for all your helpful comments. At least I have learned some tricks about how to find out what's going on. Kind regards, Christian