Re: font or face problem in emacs

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 30.06.2006 um 14:03 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:

>> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
>> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:18:34 +0200
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>
>> Make the *compilation* buffer be encoded in UTF-8
>
> In the interests of not getting users confused, and also to make the
> terminology right, let me note that buffers in Emacs are not encoded,
> neither in UTF-8 or Latin-1, nor in any other similar encoding.
> Characters are only encoded by Emacs when it writes the buffer to a
> file or sends it to some program.
>
> What you probably wanted to say was ``make Emacs decode the compiler's
> output as UTF-8''.  That is, things need to be set up so that Emacs
> interprets the byte stream from the compiler as UTF-8 encoding of
> Unicode characters.  It will then decode those bytes into the internal
> representation used to store characters within Emacs buffers.
>

Probably the way you put your words is what I meant to write -- but  
somehow I lost track of cause and effect! It's hard to find a  
difference between them in a world of quanta with German flags  
everywhere. Actually I haven't yet seen one coming out of a ... ahem,  
point in the back!

--
Greetings

   Pete

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists  
elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
                     -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and  
Hobbes