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Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Hello
> 
> 
> I would like to edit wikipedia articles, using (X)emacs as an external
> editor. The perl prg which I use for that purpose allows me to access
> to the wiki file either 
> 
>     -  in iso8859-1 coding or 
> 
>     -  in UTF8.
> 
> The iso coding seem to be broken, I am using xemacs no mule so the
> UTF8 option does not work, so I thought of using emacs21 for the
> moment, however when opening the relevant file, the UTF8 is not
> displayed correctly, I tried to play around with the language setting
> but now the coding remains broken, that is I see symbols like Brüder
> which should be displayed like Brüder but it is not.
> 
> Has anybody experience with wikipedia article using UTF8 coding.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Uwe Brauer 
For me, emacs21 + mule-ucs works fine in a UTF-8 locale. Certainly you need
proper X11 fonts to make it work.

Good luck.

Regards

-- 
Denis H. G.