From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: numbers instead of accented letters... Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 05:38:48 +0200 Message-ID: <83lg5hkerb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4E21DAC8-443B-4BFF-9C1A-2B6AB49AF3D5@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1543117306 26701 195.159.176.226 (25 Nov 2018 03:41:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 03:41:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 25 04:41:42 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gQlIj-0006s2-RC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2018 04:41:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58579 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQlKq-00079v-Ct for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2018 22:43:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39785) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQlKD-00079I-CL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2018 22:43:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQlFv-00048E-SR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2018 22:38:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45174) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gQlFv-00047j-PY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2018 22:38:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4696 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gQlFv-0006D4-CZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2018 22:38:47 -0500 In-reply-to: <4E21DAC8-443B-4BFF-9C1A-2B6AB49AF3D5@gmail.com> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Sun, 25 Nov 2018 11:55:02 +0900) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118746 Archived-At: > From: Jean-Christophe Helary > Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 11:55:02 +0900 > > What have I possibly done to have my .emacs.el display number sequences instead of accented letters ? > > I just noticed that a few days ago... > > for ex: > > ;; pour h\303\251riter du $PATH quand Emacs est lanc\303\251 hors de la ligne de commande > > Also, it is not only a display issue, when I type such accented sequences I can only see the number sequences... > > Other files (normal text files, etc.) are not affected by this behavior. > > To make sure that I use UTF-8 everywhere I have this code: > > ;; UTF-8 > (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8) > (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) > (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8) > (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8) > (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) > (when (display-graphic-p) > (setq x-select-request-type '(UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING))) On what OS is that? Also, what other non-ASCII characters do you have in your .emacs.el? (You can search for them with "N-: (skip-chars-forward "\000-\177") RET.) And if you remove all of the above settings, does the problem go away?