From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Russell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs utf-8 coding system Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:59:01 -0500 Organization: Cisco Systems Inc. Message-ID: References: <20041224123729.8A68B4C0AA@webmail2.spymac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108134003 17375 80.91.229.6 (11 Feb 2005 15:00:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:00:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 11 15:59:57 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CzcGz-0006dt-00 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:59:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzcVw-0001fl-BP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:15:24 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tOWY1zEn63orQkhGhD4WyxTb/N8= Cache-Post-Path: sj-nntpcache-3!unknown@dhcp-10-86-164-67.cisco.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b2 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 35 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128495 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24027 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24027 David Kastrup writes: > John Russell writes: > >> "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> >>>> From: Thomas Beresford >>>> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 05:37:29 -0700 >>>> >>>> I wanted to know how can I install the utf-8 coding system in my >>>> emacs 20.7.2, because when I use `M-x list-coding-systems' I don't >>>> get the utf-8 listed here. >>> >>> There was no support for UTF-8 in Emacs 20.x. Please upgrade to >>> Emacs 21.3, the latest version, to get that support. >> >> I have been trying to read .reg files which contain exports of parts >> of a windows registry in emacs, and all I get is junk. I've been >> told that this is because the registry is output in unicode. >> Notepad can read these and so can vim on linux. Is there any way I >> can view these types of files in emacs? Thanks. > > There was no support for UTF-8 in Emacs 20.x. Please upgrade to Emacs > 21.4, the latest version, to get that support. > > I doubt that 5-year old versions of vim can read the files in UTF-8, > either. Emacs 20.7 is just so last-millennium. > I was not the original poster and am not using emacs-20.*. I just got emacs-21.4.1 yesterday and the reg file still looks like mostly control charaters. I tried C-x Ret f and a few encodings, but nothing seems to change --