Re: umlauts (8bit characters) input

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc>]

Hendrik Sattler wrote:

> 8bit characters work fine everywhere(bash, mcedit, etc) except with emacs.
> When I press 'ü', it asks me for "Shell command on region:", 'ö' goes to
> "beginning of buffer" and 'ä' does nothing.
> The editing is done in KDE's konsole, locale is set to
> LANG=de_DE@euro
> LC_CTYPE="de_DE@euro"
[...]
> LC_ALL=

[...]
> Yes, it is a no-windows instance inside KDE's konsole 

That is an important information that was missing in your previous
messages.

Does it help to set...

(set-keyboard-coding-system 'iso-8859-15)

... in your ~/.emacs file?  (You shouldn't need any other settings if
the locale is setup correctly.)

> because the X emacs interface is just sooo ugly. Konsole does not
> strip of the 8th bit, as EVERYTHING els is working just fine (bash,
> mcedit, even VI!). The absolutly only exception is emacs.
> And yes, if I change my locale to UTF-8, emacs shall just follow case
> without me having to edit the whole .emacs file again.

Emacs does initialize the setting from the locale.  Initialization of
`keyboard-coding-system' works correctly in the X version without any
other settings.  I'm not sure why `set-keyboard-coding-system' is
required in Emacs 21.3 when using the no-window mode (I assume you use
21.3; you didn't mention your Emacs version).

In the next (not yet released) version of Emacs, the initialization
works fine, both with and without X, AFAICS.

Bye, Reiner.
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