From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: font or face problem in emacs Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:41:21 +0200 Message-ID: <059EF0BF-522F-4A5E-81C6-83E43F1741E0@Web.DE> References: <7F44E50F-B4E1-4692-A021-D78D5596956D@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151703789 5962 80.91.229.2 (30 Jun 2006 21:43:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:43:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 30 23:43:07 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FwQlP-0000Y8-0t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:42:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FwQlO-0002bQ-Hl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:42:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FwQjv-0001H2-Ny for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:41:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FwQjt-0001FX-Vr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:41:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FwQjt-0001FO-KD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:41:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.221] (helo=fmmailgate01.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FwQwk-0001qx-5d; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:54:42 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp08.web.de (fmsmtp08.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.216]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E91855E987; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:41:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [84.245.187.120] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.107 #114) id 1FwQjr-0006xX-00; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:41:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Image-Url: http://homepage.mac.com/sparifankal/.cv/thumbs/me.thumbnail Original-To: Eli Zaretskii X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35771 Archived-At: Am 30.06.2006 um 14:03 schrieb Eli Zaretskii: >> From: Peter Dyballa >> 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