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: Emacs utf-8 coding system Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:42:16 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? 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 1108133105 13272 80.91.229.6 (11 Feb 2005 14:45:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:45:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 11 15:45:00 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 1Czc2W-0005Un-00 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:45:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzcHT-0003yw-2F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:00:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: individual.net coy3V8nAqUQMuC3AI4oDEg4QTlvx4UrDiOGXkghdXlrioVqCSl 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/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FOzl1mRh1111r9HcDem65wn+7Vk= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128492 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:24024 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24024 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. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum