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: Coding system in compilation buffer Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:03:26 +0100 Message-ID: <0E74B3EB-8856-4969-BB42-37AE880B668B@Web.DE> References: <474A93A0.60308@tiscali.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196082275 20432 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2007 13:04:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:04:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Enno Fennema Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 26 14:04:33 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IwddO-00036d-VP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:04:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iwdd9-0002BA-VX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:04:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iwdcd-0001tf-BU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:03:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iwdca-0001qA-Am for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:03:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iwdca-0001pq-56 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:03:32 -0500 Original-Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IwdcY-0007fH-Ij for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:03:31 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp06.web.de (fmsmtp06.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.172]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D9CB1F3110; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:03:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [195.4.205.23] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp06.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.108 #208) id 1IwdcW-0006s4-00; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:03:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: <474A93A0.60308@tiscali.nl> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/sQZxTfIHBqL6G6bOCOXFw8bDKjsT9qRQH602t 8wD13wYOpO7plmiKamA/NCQ26hag1VWVin3ijokD+2Q4HQkz1X 4ArYvI1oC1V6o4vbtucg== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:49544 Archived-At: Am 26.11.2007 um 10:36 schrieb Enno Fennema: > If the above, then how should I get it to work properly. For me it works to have environment variables LANG and LC_CTYPE set some UTF-8 value, not setting a language environment in my user init file, but having (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) Well, on Mac OS X ... Check also by launching GNU Emacs with -Q, i.e. no customisation neither from your system not from you. Last resort might be the variable process-coding-system-alist. It *might* be successfully manipulated with (modify-coding-system-alist 'process "\\*compilation\\*\\'" 'utf-8) -- Greetings Pete "engineer: a mechanism for converting caffeine into designs"