From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do I get emacs to display accented characters? Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 03:28:03 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87vg2c7m18.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> References: <6525a5d7.0212012151.2aae4bcf@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038825089 19566 80.91.224.249 (2 Dec 2002 10:31:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 10:31:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18InrM-00055R-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 11:31:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Inqx-0006TW-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 05:31:03 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!msc1.onvoy!onvoy.com!tethys.csu.net!nntp!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Public-Key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF40524D0 X-Home-Page: http://www.gci-net.com/users/j/johnw/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:h0hqp4NiVghJKiGI6CX77szkglU= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 23 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107636 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4186 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4186 >>>>> On Sun Dec 1, Jay writes: > When I use XEmacs, I have no problem. When the buffer contains, > e.g., "Rick's Café Américain", XEmacs displays "Rick's > Café Américain". Emacs, on the other hand, displays "Rick's > Cafe Americain". Unless I do (load-library "iso-ascii"), in which > case it displays "Rick's Caf{'e} Am{'e}ricain". Nothing I do has > succeeding in getting Emacs to display "Rick's Café > Américain" like XEmacs does. > These are the things that I have done, which have had no effect: > (set-terminal-coding-system 'iso-latin-1-unix) (setq > unibyte-display-via-language-environment t) > (set-language-environment 'Latin-1) Usually this sort of thing happens if there is *even one* character that is not part of the latin-1 encoding. For example, it happens to me when saving certain web pages that use \240 as a space character. Once I replace these extraneous codes, then when I visit the buffer the accents are automatically displayed. You shouldn't have to change any of the buffer local variables. John