From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problem with UTF-8 when accessing Emacs installed on iMac from ssh session on the iPad Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:29:58 +0300 Message-ID: <83sjohebft.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314811932 3126 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2011 17:32:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:32:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 31 19:32:08 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyodw-0000kb-MJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:32:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40831 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyodv-0007l5-SV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:32:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:33802) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyodq-0007kJ-LJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyodp-0007rM-A8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:31:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:55913) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qyodp-0007rI-3s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:31:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LQS00H00YRNPO00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:29:58 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.83.44]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LQS00HWSZ9WQG00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:29:57 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:82102 Archived-At: > From: Carl Bolduc > Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:12:06 -0400 >=20 > On the iPad, I use Prompt > (http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for-ios/)= to > open a ssh session on my Mac and run Emacs remotely. Whenever I try= to > add a "French" character such as "=E9" or "=E8", I get "\351" in th= e > buffer and Emacs will complain if I try to save the file. If I swit= ch > the coding system to iso-8859-1, I can enter the French chars witho= ut > any problems. >=20 > Is there a setting I can change to make UTF-8 work when I access Em= acs > through ssh? Are you saying that existing text is displayed correctly, and the problem is with typing French characters? If so, please tell what does the following display in Emacs: M-: keyboard-coding-system RET Also, is this a GUI (graphical) session or a text-mode session?