Re: Emacs, terminal, and terminal coding schemes

[Jonathon Isaac Swiderski <jonswid@umich.edu>]

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kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
> 
> >    But when I change this to "latin-9" all characters
> >    (even thost that are common in latin-1 and -9)
> >    turn into "?".  What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Well, with your settings you are editing Latin-1 text but tell Emacs
> that your terminal displays Latin-9.  Emacs doesn't know that it some
> Latin-1 characters look the same as some Latin-9 characters, so it
> doesn't think it can display the Latin-1 chars in the
> Latin-9-displaying terminal.
> 
> If your language environment would agree with the terminal, then it
> would work better.

I have set C-x RET t iso-latin-1 and C-x RET t iso-8859-1 (I've tried -9, too),
and Gnus (5.7/Emacs 20.7) still doesn't understand characters --- while Pine's
newsreader (whose coding system is set to iso-8859-1 also) correctly displays
accents, umlauts, etc. correctly, Gnus display's Kai's last name as
"Gro\337johann" or "=?iso-8859-1?q?G".  All this in the same terminal emulator,
PuTTY.

What settings/shell-variables do I need to fix this?

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