From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: GNU Emacs List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: different distro [was: Re: garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs]
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:01:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F301588.2030200@mousecar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ipjofk5d.fsf@gnu.org>
On 02/03/2012 02:31 AM Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:00:37 -0500
>> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
>>
>>>> ....
>>
>> Select one of the following safe coding systems:
>> iso-2022-jp-2 x-ctext iso-2022-7bit raw-text emacs-mule no-conversion
>> ctext-no-compositions iso-2022-8bit-ss2 iso-2022-7bit-lock
>> iso-2022-7bit-ss2 tibetan-iso-8bit-with-esc thai-tis620-with-esc
>> lao-with-esc korean-iso-8bit-with-esc hebrew-iso-8bit-with-esc
>> greek-iso-8bit-with-esc iso-latin-9-with-esc iso-latin-8-with-esc
>> iso-latin-5-with-esc iso-latin-4-with-esc iso-latin-3-with-esc
>> iso-latin-2-with-esc iso-latin-1-with-esc
>> in-is13194-devanagari-with-esc cyrillic-iso-8bit-with-esc
>> chinese-iso-8bit-with-esc japanese-iso-8bit-with-esc
>> ===================================================================
>>
>> Entering "utf-8" into the minibuffer, of course, doesn't work. Frankly,
>> I'd like to save into utf-8
>
> You can't, not with Emacs 21. In that version, the same character in
> different character sets was treated as 2 different characters. Also,
> the mule-utf-8 character set didn't include the Latin-1 characters.
>
> The only suggestion I have is to try iso-latin-1-with-esc (you will
> see above that this is one of the possibilities suggested by Emacs),
> it should at least produce a Latin-1 encoded file, which will be
> easier on you later.
>
> You really need to upgrade your Emacs, if you want to use UTF-8.
Thanks, Eli, for all the good advice.
I was using v.22 previously, but was hoping to stay with the standard
(CentOS/Red Hat) distribution. This situation and your insight have
convinced me I've got to use a more recent emacs. I'm thinking now of
doing an edgier distro, some rpm/yum based thing like Fedora.
Suggestions appreciated.
Thanks again to all for the great tips.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-06 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-01 20:41 garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs ken
2012-02-01 21:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-02 2:39 ` ken
2012-02-02 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-02 20:00 ` ken
2012-02-03 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-06 18:01 ` ken [this message]
2012-02-06 20:15 ` different distro [was: Re: garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs] Peter Dyballa
2012-02-01 21:29 ` garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs Philipp Haselwarter
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