Re: Emacs, terminal, and terminal coding schemes

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

>    But when I change this to "latin-9" all characters
>    (even thost that are common in latin-1 and -9)
>    turn into "?".  What am I doing wrong?

Well, with your settings you are editing Latin-1 text but tell Emacs
that your terminal displays Latin-9.  Emacs doesn't know that it some
Latin-1 characters look the same as some Latin-9 characters, so it
doesn't think it can display the Latin-1 chars in the
Latin-9-displaying terminal.

If your language environment would agree with the terminal, then it
would work better.

FWIW, I just set $LC_CTYPE to de_DE@euro and don't need to change
anything else.

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