From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Axel E. Retif" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: File Encoding Issue on Windows Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:59:37 -0600 Message-ID: <51413D19.2020005@mac.com> References: <1363057726.11242.YahooMailNeo@web165001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1363100259.90696.YahooMailNeo@web165001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <87a9q8shoe.fsf@riseup.net> <1363196694.77456.YahooMailNeo@web165002.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <07F09555-8B22-49CD-903D-2462D7A05BE2@Web.DE> <1363209104.14949.YahooMailNeo@web165005.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <4E301087-AEB5-4214-B6BB-C52DA31DE339@Web.DE> <1363217199.31399.YahooMailNeo@web165001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <660EABDA-3253-49BB-9244-D5E6338B3CB2@Web.DE> <1363218487.89955.YahooMailNeo@web165002.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <51411C04.4090704@mac.com> <1363227851.54596.YahooMailNeo@web165002.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1363228507.92393.YahooMailNeo@web165003.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.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 1363230004 20644 80.91.229.3 (14 Mar 2013 03:00:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:00:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: Tech Stuff Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 14 04:00:29 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UFyP7-0002UW-1d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:00:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43070 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFyOk-0002VH-K3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:00:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36677) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFyOY-0002V1-Ee for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:59:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFyOW-0007ys-A6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:59:54 -0400 Original-Received: from nk11p00mm-asmtp003.mac.com ([17.158.161.2]:56260) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFyOW-0007yh-50 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:59:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.100.8] (fixed-191-13-79.iusacell.net [187.191.13.79]) by nk11p00mm-asmtp003.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-26.01(7.0.4.26.0) 64bit (built Jul 13 2012)) with ESMTPSA id <0MJM00K4AQZOVK50@nk11p00mm-asmtp003.mac.com> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:59:51 +0000 (GMT) In-reply-to: <1363228507.92393.YahooMailNeo@web165003.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.10.8626,1.0.431,0.0.0000 definitions=2013-03-14_01:2013-03-14, 2013-03-13, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1302030000 definitions=main-1303130223 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130308 Thunderbird/17.0.4 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 17.158.161.2 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89526 Archived-At: On 03/13/2013 08:35 PM, Tech Stuff wrote: > So, having played around a bit more I do have to make one correctio= n. > It does appear that now I am able to enter the extended characters > supported by the US International keyboard, even in the mini-buffer= . Yes, I also use an US keyboard (an Apple US Keyboard, in fact, both i= n=20 Linux and Mac) for Spanish text. > I still > have the general problem though. How do I for instance enter the > character at codepoint 173 which is a soft hyphen (whatever that is= ) > into the mini buffer? That I don't know (copy-paste?). But I usually enter UTF-8 characters= =20 with C-X 8 RET; for example, to get an em dash, C-X 8 RET em dash RET or, to get an =C3=82, as per Peter's table, C-X 8 RET 00C2 RET. See http://emacswiki.org/emacs/UnicodeEncoding Best Axel