Trouble viewing accented characters

Trouble viewing accented characters

[Armando Martins]

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Hello!
When I open a text file and due to encoding problems what I see is, say,

Text imprim\351]. Edici\363n, introducci\363n

instead of

Text imprimé]. Edición, introducción

how can I view the accented characters correctly, please?

Thanks for your help.
Armando Martins
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Armando Martins
Departamento de Linguística e Literaturas
Universidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais nº 2
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Re: Trouble viewing accented characters

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 18.09.2008 um 15:41 schrieb Armando Martins:

> how can I view the accented characters correctly, please?

By setting the right encoding for the text in the buffer! The ISO  
Latin encodings are fine, some MS Losedos code pages (125[02]) also  
have LATIN SMALL LETTER [EO] WITH ACUTE on code points octal \351  
resp. \363.

The mode-line of a recent GNU Emacs shows the encoding used in the  
buffer, the Options menu has a Mule entry which lets you choose  
another coding system by reverting this file now (C-x RET r).

Setting environment variables like LANG or LC_CTYPE to a reasonable  
value can enable GNU Emacs to use this reasonable value to present  
you a text file's contents. You can also try to set

	(prefer-coding-system	 'iso-8859-15)

in your init file.

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Re: Trouble viewing accented characters

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

Peter Dyballa пишет:
> 
> Am 18.09.2008 um 15:41 schrieb Armando Martins:
> 
>> how can I view the accented characters correctly, please?
> 
> By setting the right encoding for the text in the buffer! The ISO Latin 
> encodings are fine, some MS Losedos code pages (125[02]) also have LATIN 
> SMALL LETTER [EO] WITH ACUTE on code points octal \351 resp. \363.
> 
> The mode-line of a recent GNU Emacs shows the encoding used in the 
> buffer, the Options menu has a Mule entry which lets you choose another 
> coding system by reverting this file now (C-x RET r).
> 
> Setting environment variables like LANG or LC_CTYPE to a reasonable 
> value can enable GNU Emacs to use this reasonable value to present you a 
> text file's contents. You can also try to set
> 
>     (prefer-coding-system     'iso-8859-15)
> 
> in your init file.
> 

Your way if all file in single coding. For my Ukraine I have much text
with cp866, cp1251, koi8-r, uft-16-le, utf-8.

I found the method explain coding system already opened file to emacs by
typing C-x <enter> C, type character set of file
(by <TAB> you can learn what are exist) and C-x revert-buffer.

After emacs understand coding of file you may save file in other coding 
system typing C-x <ret> f. This useful tip then need windows CR/LF
convert to UNIX LF.

Re: Trouble viewing accented characters

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.09.2008 um 20:30 schrieb Oleksandr Gavenko:

> C-x <enter> C


C-x RET c – as in the menu.

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Re: Trouble viewing accented characters

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

Peter Dyballa пишет:
> 
> Am 19.09.2008 um 20:30 schrieb Oleksandr Gavenko:
> 
>> C-x <enter> C
> 
> C-x RET c – as in the menu.
> 
Yea, sorry mistyped.

Re: Trouble viewing accented characters

[B. T. Raven]

Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
> Peter Dyballa пишет:
>>
>> Am 19.09.2008 um 20:30 schrieb Oleksandr Gavenko:
>>
>>> C-x <enter> C
>>
>> C-x RET c – as in the menu.
>>
> Yea, sorry mistyped.


For the sake of completeness, it's also M-x revert-buffer, not C-x 
revert-buffer.

Re: Trouble viewing accented characters

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

Problem that you have described in

GNU Emacs Manual.

See
"27. International Character Set Support"
  - 27.10 Fontsets.
  - 27.11 Defining fontsets.

Also from "C.7 Font Specification Options"

Here is an example, which happens to specify the font whose nickname is 
С6x13Т:

      emacs -fn \
        "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1" &

You can also specify the font in your .Xdefaults file:

      emacs.font: 
-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1

Re: Trouble viewing accented characters

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

Oleksandr Gavenko пишет:
> Problem that you have described in
> 
> GNU Emacs Manual.
> 
> See
> "27. International Character Set Support"
>  - 27.10 Fontsets.
>  - 27.11 Defining fontsets.
> 
> Also from "C.7 Font Specification Options"
> 
> Here is an example, which happens to specify the font whose nickname is 
> С6x13Т:
> 
>      emacs -fn \
>        "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1" &
> 
> You can also specify the font in your .Xdefaults file:
> 
>      emacs.font: 
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1

Oh sorry! I stupid!

Try C-x <enter> C, type character set of file
(you must somebody know it) and C-x revert-buffer.

About it read "GNU Emacs Manual" part "27.9 Specifying a Coding System".

Sorry once!