From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 23 - german characters - babel/rdictcc Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:03:33 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <878x7y7uqi.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: <271wdrcdsn.fsf@homelinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188104988 21777 80.91.229.12 (26 Aug 2007 05:09:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:09:48 +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 Aug 26 07:09:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IPANc-00077o-DM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:09:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPANb-00069Z-Ct for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:09:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPANM-00069U-3B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:09:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPANJ-00069I-Im for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:09:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPANJ-00069F-AT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:09:25 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IPANI-0007O9-U1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:09:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IPAND-0004Td-Tb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:09:19 +0200 Original-Received: from e178055242.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.55.242]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:09:19 +0200 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178055242.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:09:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178055242.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CshfSv1M8W7ql7izuWgpOxsSakA= X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46848 Archived-At: On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:58:16 +0200 Hadron wrote: > Hadron writes: > >> I can now type german characters just fine in emacs 23. >> >> But when I invoke certain programs which talk to external processes such >> as rdictcc, I get escaped characters back in the reply. e.g highlighting >> "bridges" and invoking rdictcc gives a buffer like: That's probably `rdictcc's (whatever it is) fault. You can let bind `coding-system-for-read' and `coding-system-for-write' to latin-1 to tell Emacs to expect latin-1 encoded text from the process. David