From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Going Unicode all out in Emacs 26.1 Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2018 15:50:08 +0530 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528539813 22156 195.159.176.226 (9 Jun 2018 10:23:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 10:23:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (windows-nt) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 09 12:23:29 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fRb1t-0005gO-0l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:23:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39716 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRb3z-0006bU-Oy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2018 06:25:39 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="61b9ef910c9fab9ec8c83f50c88d35d9"; logging-data="24686"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/dlDfoFy7vCNsi53Kh/NGxTut14JONK54=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:lybpDyfBS84xj/Nvhn/T1+bFxII= sha1:ZxMMHFTYrZvyOfSgA6PxLMhManQ= User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:222945 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117066 Archived-At: On Thu, Jun 07 2018,Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Sivaram Neelakantan >> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 01:27:30 +0530 >> >> As the Subject says, what settings are needed to make Emacs work in >> Unicode for text files and buffers? > > Please explain what you mean by "work in Unicode". I don't think I > understand the issues you are having or are envisioning to have. And > "Unicode" has a very specific interpretation in the Windows world, in > some contexts. > I have no issues so far; all I wanted to know was whether there are any .Emacs settings that needs to be fiddled with to make Unicode work on Windows. I just checked the Hello file, all languages seem to render correctly in terms of the chars that I see. I see that the modeline has got a U with a tooltip 'utf-8-emacs-dos' which should allow me to work in Emacs and nonemacs Windows application like notepad(reading the file for e.g)? sivaram --