From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Multibyte chars [was Re: multiple inserts within skeletons] Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 20:24:32 GMT Organization: Still searching... Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052339134 9228 80.91.224.249 (7 May 2003 20:25:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 20:25:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 07 22:25:32 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19DVT8-0002LL-00 for ; Wed, 07 May 2003 22:24:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19DVUT-0003lO-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 May 2003 16:26:13 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!yellow.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!feed1.newsreader.com!newsreader.com!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!c03.atl99!rip!news.webusenet.com!prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr14.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!cbca52ab!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09002 (Oort Gnus v0.20) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T+7dVoFcZgze1ETrX+afLIWwQMM= Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.206.48.91 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: newssvr14.news.prodigy.com 1052339072 ST000 63.206.48.91 (Wed, 07 May 2003 16:24:32 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 16:24:32 EDT X-UserInfo1: [[OCR]GGU[RWRWTYBZH@_VDA[X_LPO@FDY^L\UQHWIWDUWYADNVOPCKZBL\NX_KHV^GY[KVMG^ZPNHSCZNS[^UXFJVWYXVXKBH[XRWWBBDTN@AX\JSBVH]_@T\EKJHBMZ\_WZJFNRY]YWKSPED_U^NC\HSZ\WS[KEAYI@DO@\K@BP\LD[\GTMPLDFVU]ASJM Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112914 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9408 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9408 Oliver Scholz writes: Going to the subject of multibyte chars instead of the original topic of skeletons for a moment: > Harry Putnam writes: > >> Oliver Scholz writes: >> >> Oliver... I must have some language setting that will help me read >> your response. I see quite a lot of unusual chars, back slashes and >> three diget number in your text. > [...] > > That sounds as if the text is interpreted as unibyte text. What is the > value of `enable-multibyte-characters' in this buffer? -- But if it is > t, what does `C-u C-x =' return with point on such a character? Oliver... Sorry I took so long to reply here. Since its been so long since this thread was current.. The response of yours referenced abouve is: Message-ID: About `enable-multibyte-characters': In that buffer the value is `nil' but I ran into something I don't understand trying to set it to `t'. M-x set-variable enable-multibyte-characters t Gives me: Variable enable-multibyte-characters is read-only I don't recall ever seeinig that message come up when setting a var before. C-u C-x = on a character that looks like an `a' with two small dots over it followed by slash (\)200\234current date(a with dots)\200\235 character: â (0342, 226, 0xe2) charset: eight-bit-graphic (8-bit graphic char (0xA0..0xFF)) code point: 226 syntax: which means: whitespace category: buffer code: 0xE2 file code: 0xE2 (encoded by coding system utf-8) font: -Adobe-Courier-Bold-R-Normal--14-100-100-100-M-90-ISO8859-1