* \201 chars showing up in buffer when using emacs from mutt
@ 2005-03-24 12:14 Dirk-Jan.Binnema
2005-03-25 1:12 ` Peter Dyballa
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From: Dirk-Jan.Binnema @ 2005-03-24 12:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi all,
I am using emacs as the editor for mutt; however, I have never been able
to get it working correctly, as quite often emacs will not detect that
a text file is, in fact utf8 (that's when i get the '\201' character before
accented characters like in German). I've found similar problems on the
mailing list, but no solution that seems to work; that includes setting utf8
as the preferred encoding.Also, it does not really seem to
matter what charset I use in mutt, or my exact setting in .emacs.
So does anyone have bullet proof settings such that I will never see that
dreaded \201 again? I am *almost* capabable of just removing them trough some
hook function when I start emacs, but taht seems very evil.
Thanks in advance
Dirk.
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* Re: \201 chars showing up in buffer when using emacs from mutt
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@ 2005-03-25 0:39 ` B.T. Raven
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From: B.T. Raven @ 2005-03-25 0:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
<Dirk-Jan.Binnema@nokia.com> wrote in message
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Hi all,
I am using emacs as the editor for mutt; however, I have never been able
to get it working correctly, as quite often emacs will not detect that
a text file is, in fact utf8 (that's when i get the '\201' character
before
accented characters like in German). I've found similar problems on the
mailing list, but no solution that seems to work; that includes setting
utf8
as the preferred encoding.Also, it does not really seem to
matter what charset I use in mutt, or my exact setting in .emacs.
So does anyone have bullet proof settings such that I will never see
that
dreaded \201 again? I am *almost* capabable of just removing them trough
some
hook function when I start emacs, but taht seems very evil.
Thanks in advance
Dirk.
The next time you see all the characters correctly displayed in the
buffer, put
;; -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
at the top of the file. Then type C-x RET f utf-8 before saving the
buffer again. This explicit hint in the first line of the file will
prevent emacs from considering any other encoding when it reads the file
again. I don't know what mutt is but if it executes the text file, maybe
the line starting with ;; could be wrapped in another kind of multi-line
comment (like /*....*/ in C)
C-x RET I utf-8 should also work since (I think)
default-buffer-file-coding-system's value is persistent across sessions.
Alternatively you could set currentl-language-environment with M-x
customize but then you would get the rtf1345 input method which probably
doesn't work (w32) or maybe you don't want.
Ed.
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* Re: \201 chars showing up in buffer when using emacs from mutt
2005-03-24 12:14 Dirk-Jan.Binnema
@ 2005-03-25 1:12 ` Peter Dyballa
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From: Peter Dyballa @ 2005-03-25 1:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Am 24.03.2005 um 13:14 schrieb <Dirk-Jan.Binnema@nokia.com>:
> So does anyone have bullet proof settings such that I will never see
> that
> dreaded \201 again? I am *almost* capabable of just removing them
> trough some
> hook function when I start emacs, but taht seems very evil.
>
You have a few choices:
a) set in the file's header something like
<comment> -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
where <comment> is the comment character for this type of file
b) set file-coding-system-alist, auto-coding-alist -- You can customize
this variable:
("\\.tex\\'" iso-latin-9-unix . iso-latin-9-unix)
c) some of these:
(set-language-environment 'Chinese-BIG5)
(set-default-coding-systems 'euc-jp-unix)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'mac-roman)
(set-clipboard-coding-system 'sjis-mac)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-file-name-coding-system 'utf-8)
d) combinations of above
--
Greetings
Pete
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
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* RE: \201 chars showing up in buffer when using emacs from mutt
@ 2005-03-29 11:09 Dirk-Jan.Binnema
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From: Dirk-Jan.Binnema @ 2005-03-29 11:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Thank you for your reply.
> From: Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE [mailto:Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE]
>
> Am 24.03.2005 um 13:14 schrieb <Dirk-Jan.Binnema@nokia.com>:
>
> > So does anyone have bullet proof settings such that I will
> never see
> > that
> > dreaded \201 again? I am *almost* capabable of just removing them
> > trough some
> > hook function when I start emacs, but taht seems very evil.
> >
>
> You have a few choices:
>
> a) set in the file's header something like
> <comment> -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> where <comment> is the comment character for this type of file
Ah... but that would require a bit of a hack though in my use case
(running emacs as the editor for mutt).
> b) set file-coding-system-alist, auto-coding-alist -- You can
> customize
> this variable:
> ("\\.tex\\'" iso-latin-9-unix . iso-latin-9-unix)
>
> c) some of these:
[...]
> d) combinations of above
Ok, I am testing these. I did however also discover the 'send_charset'
setting for Mutt; together with your hints that may do the trick -- thanks.
--Dirk.
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