From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Problem with multilingual input? Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:23:07 +0100 Message-ID: <4743DCDB.1000409@gmx.at> References: <14794.6183.qm@web58603.mail.re3.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195629902 5141 80.91.229.12 (21 Nov 2007 07:25:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:25:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bug-Gnu-Emacs To: Bostjan Vilfan Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 21 08:25:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-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 1IujxM-0004Ok-AV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:25:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iujx8-0006LB-6p for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:24:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iujx3-0006Ku-14 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:24:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iujx1-0006Ka-IC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:24:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iujx1-0006KX-Ct for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:24:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iujx0-0004QJ-Ti for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:24:47 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 Nov 2007 07:24:45 -0000 Original-Received: from N727P024.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.34.216]) [62.47.34.216] by mail.gmx.net (mp048) with SMTP; 21 Nov 2007 08:24:45 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19Bi7F3AGBBZw6rQuB4aqQGhln85eEcwCCgncclAc aIY9PTwymQq31i User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <14794.6183.qm@web58603.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17028 Archived-At: > On Windows I tried your suggestion (set-language-environment) and the > result was the same (empty rectangles). Then I selected > Options->Mule-Show All of Mule Status and read off the current > language environment as UTF-8. Thus, language environment equals utf-8= > or English does not influence the outcome. Sorry for the delay. I hoped someone else would respond but apparently all language environment experts are busy at the moment. Please CC to bug-gnu-emacs when answering - maybe we'll get qualified help. > On Linux the outcome is OK (cyrillic characters visible), again The correct name of this OS is GNU/Linux. > regardless of the language environment settings (utf-8 or English) When I have a file saved with mule-utf-8 containing the two lines bla bla =D0=B1=D0=BB=D0=B0 =D0=B1=D0=BB=D0=B0 visit the file with `current-language-environment' utf-8 and do `describe-char' for the first character of the first line I get character: b (98, #o142, #x62, U+0062) charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV)) code point: #x62 syntax: w which means: word category: a:ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0]) l:= Latin buffer code: #x62 file code: #x62 (encoded by coding system mule-utf-8-dos) display: by this font (glyph code) -outline-Courier New-normal-r-normal-normal-16-96-120-120-c-*-iso88= 59-1 (#x62) `describe-char' for the first character of the second line gets me character: =D0=B1 (332881, #o1212121, #x51451, U+0431) charset: mule-unicode-0100-24ff (Unicode characters of the range U+0= 100..U+24FF.) code point: #x28 #x51 syntax: w which means: word category: y:Cyrillic buffer code: #x9C #xF4 #xA8 #xD1 file code: #xD0 #xB1 (encoded by coding system mule-utf-8-dos) display: by this font (glyph code) -outline-Courier New-normal-r-normal-normal-16-96-120-120-c-*-iso10= 646-1 (#x431) on WindowsME. What do you get?