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: Trouble viewing accented characters Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:57:55 +0200 Message-ID: <42924716-F42F-48BE-BF1B-4A234CF30CBD@Web.DE> References: <70e18f680809180641s2ad01c49kf91f1d96e68e3c6e@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221760719 19135 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2008 17:58:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:58:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Armando Martins Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 18 19:59:36 2008 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 1KgNmr-000195-2E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:59:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37633 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KgNlp-00049q-R4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:58:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KgNlZ-00049b-OX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:58:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KgNlX-00049P-Bq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:58:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45781 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KgNlX-00049M-6H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:58:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:59933) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KgNlW-0006dk-OS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28726F0CD2AC; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:58:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [91.35.249.16] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1KgNlS-0006ur-00; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:58:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: <70e18f680809180641s2ad01c49kf91f1d96e68e3c6e@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18Bo3ugJeCvLlIG6edJbn/ahySFefRV7jZ0e7t7 7MZvPPcatHsXjYd06OoucuCOm7SKKbqLwTHElB/6L+t6jPgIUA QV0SOoKyvuQnFMHKyZsg== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:57770 Archived-At: Am 18.09.2008 um 15:41 schrieb Armando Martins: > how can I view the accented characters correctly, please? By setting the right encoding for the text in the buffer! The ISO Latin encodings are fine, some MS Losedos code pages (125[02]) also have LATIN SMALL LETTER [EO] WITH ACUTE on code points octal \351 resp. \363. The mode-line of a recent GNU Emacs shows the encoding used in the buffer, the Options menu has a Mule entry which lets you choose another coding system by reverting this file now (C-x RET r). Setting environment variables like LANG or LC_CTYPE to a reasonable value can enable GNU Emacs to use this reasonable value to present you a text file's contents. You can also try to set (prefer-coding-system 'iso-8859-15) in your init file. -- Greetings Pete Bake pizza not war!