From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: umlauts (8bit characters) input Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:36:20 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107261428 2391 80.91.229.2 (1 Feb 2005 12:37:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:37:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 01 13:37:07 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CvxHD-00062X-FI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:37:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CvxU7-00086A-P9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 07:50:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Trace: individual.net wKNHa/3inOIG2KEh8qzekAyeqtA7zc81PeC3ibfh1VLpZOTlIJ X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kHBHdHElQQAEaoxFD3JFoNFyAas= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128299 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23807 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23807 Hendrik Sattler writes: > Peter Dyballa wrote: >> Are you running Emacs freely as an X11 client or is it >> no-windows inside a terminal emulation? In the second case you're a bit >> dependant of what the terminal emulation is doing. It might convert >> 8bit to 7bit. > > Yes, it is a no-windows instance inside KDE's konsole 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. And Emacs does just that. Throw out whatever customization of locales and whatsoever you have in your .emacs, or start with an empty .emacs, and it should work. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum