Problem with german umlaute

Problem with german umlaute

[Philipp Schulte]

Hello,
I am using GNU Emacs 21.3.1 on a GNU/Linux system and I have many 
troubles with characters like ü,ö,ä,ß and ¤. If I start Emacs on the
console, everything is fine and I can type those characters and they
are displayed correctly. 
If I start Emacs while using X a new windows is created and those
characters work, too. But if I start Emacs from an aterm with -nw 
none of those characters work, even though they do work in the aterm.

For example pressing "ü" makes Emacs display this: 
"Shell command on region:"

Pressing "¤" gives a 
"Searching for program: no such file or directory, ispell".

Obviously this is wrong. I just don't understand why every single editor
that I tried (including vim and several Emacs clones like qemacs or zile)
can handle those characters just fine without changing any settings.
Any hints? Thanks,
Phil

Re: Problem with german umlaute

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Jun 12 2003, Philipp Schulte wrote:

> But if I start Emacs from an aterm with -nw none of those characters
> work, even though they do work in the aterm.

(unless window-system
  (set-keyboard-coding-system 'latin-9))

> Pressing "¤" [...]

This is a "Currency" character, not the EUR you probably meant to
type.  If you see an EUR there, something is wrong your locale or font
settings.  But maybe it's only a wrong setting in your slrn
configuration.

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: Problem with german umlaute

[Philipp Schulte]

Reiner Steib wrote: 

> On Thu, Jun 12 2003, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> 
>> But if I start Emacs from an aterm with -nw none of those characters
>> work, even though they do work in the aterm.
> 
> (unless window-system
>   (set-keyboard-coding-system 'latin-9))

Thanks! This seems to work. 

>> Pressing "¤" [...]
> 
> This is a "Currency" character, not the EUR you probably meant to
> type.  If you see an EUR there, something is wrong your locale or font
> settings.  But maybe it's only a wrong setting in your slrn
> configuration.

True, my posting was iso-8859-1, which of course has no EUR.
Phil