Encoding (latin-5) on Emacs 22

Encoding (latin-5) on Emacs 22

[Burak Bayramli]

I am using post-fix mode to type up turkish text with utf-8 encoding - I can
enter it characters fine and view it from outside programs (such as notepad),
however Emacs won't show the characters as they are. My settings are:

(set-language-environment "Turkish")
(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.txt\\'" 'utf-8)

Any ideas? 

Re: Encoding (latin-5) on Emacs 22

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 02.01.2008 um 21:18 schrieb Burak Bayramli:

> Emacs won't show the characters as they are

What do you mean with this? Seeing only boxes? Then you've chosen the  
wrong font or wrong fontset which simply does not contain these  
accented characters so it can't display them.

A good start is to have shell environment variables LC_CTYPE and LANG  
defined to something like de_DE.UTF-8, that your system supports,  
maybe: tr_TR.UTF-8. This would help GNU Emacs a lot to set up things  
internally. It won't solve the font problem. This one might be solved  
by the Lucida fonts form a Java SDK ...

Do you see Turkish texts better when you launch GNU Emacs with -Q?

--
Greetings

   Pete

The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget  
cuts.

Re: Encoding (latin-5) on Emacs 22

[Burak Bayramli]

Hi Peter, yes I was seeing only boxes but I was able to fix the problem. 
I changed this

(set-language-environment "Turkish")

to this

(set-language-environment "UTF-8")

and the characters started displaying fine. Thanks for your response.

Peter Dyballa wrote:
>
> Am 02.01.2008 um 21:18 schrieb Burak Bayramli:
>
>> Emacs won't show the characters as they are
>
> What do you mean with this? Seeing only boxes? Then you've chosen the 
> wrong font or wrong fontset which simply does not contain these 
> accented characters so it can't display them.
>
> A good start is to have shell environment variables LC_CTYPE and LANG 
> defined to something like de_DE.UTF-8, that your system supports, 
> maybe: tr_TR.UTF-8. This would help GNU Emacs a lot to set up things 
> internally. It won't solve the font problem. This one might be solved 
> by the Lucida fonts form a Java SDK ...
>
> Do you see Turkish texts better when you launch GNU Emacs with -Q?
>
> -- 
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
> The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget 
> cuts.
>
>