* bug#1456: Cannot Put Non-ASCII Characters in Init Files
@ 2008-11-29 17:51 Bostjan Vilfan
2008-12-10 2:57 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Bostjan Vilfan @ 2008-11-29 17:51 UTC (permalink / raw
To: bug-gnu-emacs
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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:
This is most probably not a bug; but needs some input from an expert.
In Section 57.6.5 of the Emacs manual (Non-ASCII Characters in Init Files) it is stated
that to use non-ASCII characters the init file must start with a line of the form:
-*-coding: <coding system name> -*-
I tried that with coding system equal to utf-8 and got the following error:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable \337-*-coding:)
eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "c:/Documents and Settings/Bostjan/My Documents/.emacs.d/init.el" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 12
load-with-code-conversion("c:/Documents and Settings/Bostjan/My Documents/.emacs.d/init.el" "c:/Documents and Settings/Bostjan/My Documents/.emacs.d/init.el" t t)
load("c:/Documents and Settings/Bostjan/My Documents/.emacs.d/init" t t)
#[nil ^H\205\276^@ \306=\203^Q^@\307^H\310Q\202A^@ \311=\2033 etc.
When I replaced the first line as described above with the following three
lines at the end
;; Local Variables: **
;; coding:utf-8 **
;; End: **
I got a different error:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid modifier in a string") etc.
any advice would be appreciated
Regards
Bostjan
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* bug#1456: Cannot Put Non-ASCII Characters in Init Files
2008-11-29 17:51 bug#1456: Cannot Put Non-ASCII Characters in Init Files Bostjan Vilfan
@ 2008-12-10 2:57 ` Glenn Morris
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2008-12-10 2:57 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Bostjan Vilfan; +Cc: 1456
See for example the files buff-menu.el and ibuffer.el in the Emacs
distribution (you can use M-x locate-library) for the two ways to
specify coding. Don't forget it must be a comment line in the "first
line in file" method.
Beyond that, any problem may be specific to your init file. Start with
an empty one and see that works. Then remove a half at a time from the
real file until you narrow down the problem. Starting with
"--debug-init" can also help.
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* bug#1456: Cannot Put Non-ASCII Characters in Init Files
@ 2008-12-10 14:06 Chong Yidong
2008-12-10 17:19 ` Bostjan Vilfan
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Chong Yidong @ 2008-12-10 14:06 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Bostjan Vilfan; +Cc: 1456
> See for example the files buff-menu.el and ibuffer.el in the Emacs
> distribution (you can use M-x locate-library) for the two ways to
> specify coding. Don't forget it must be a comment line in the "first
> line in file" method.
>
> Beyond that, any problem may be specific to your init file. Start with
> an empty one and see that works. Then remove a half at a time from the
> real file until you narrow down the problem. Starting with
> "--debug-init" can also help.
Did you manage to track down the problem?
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* bug#1456: Cannot Put Non-ASCII Characters in Init Files
2008-12-10 14:06 Chong Yidong
@ 2008-12-10 17:19 ` Bostjan Vilfan
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Bostjan Vilfan @ 2008-12-10 17:19 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Chong Yidong; +Cc: 1456
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Thanks for your answer.
I hope I now understand the problem. Actually, I already sent a reply to one
comment message, but since I did not cc it to 1456@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,
I am doing so now.
It turned out that of the two problems described in my original bug report, the first
(-*-coding: utf-8-*- in my init file did not work) resulted from not prefixing
"-*-coding: utf-8-*-" with ";;".
The second (error "Invalid modifier in a string") was the result of some key redefinitions,
which apparently do not work, or do not work as I thought they would. My original desire
was to provide encodings for some Central European characters that are located in certain
places on the local keyboard. Specifically, they correspond to the US keys ; : ' " [ { ] }
\ | . Therefore, I placed the following code in my init file:
(global-set-key "\C-c;" 'insertch) ;OK
(global-set-key "\C-c:" 'insertCh) ;OK
(global-set-key "\C-c'" 'inserttj) ;OK
(global-set-key "\C-c\"" 'insertTj) ;OK
(global-set-key "\C-c]" 'insertdj)
(global-set-key "\C-c}" 'insertDj) ;OK
(global-set-key "\C-c[" 'insertsh)
(global-set-key "\C-c{" 'insertSh) ;OK
(global-set-key "\C-c\\" 'insertzh)
(global-set-key "\C-c|" 'insertZh) ;OK
where 'insertch etc. are functions for inserting the appropriate characters. After some
investigation I discovered that one or more of these redefinitions are the cause of
the "Invalid modifier in a string" error. Not wishing to pursue the matter further I simply
took the advice in the manual to accept as user-defined key shortcuts the key sequences
C-c<letter>. After choosing key definitions of that type, my problems went away.
Regards,
bostjanv
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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Bostjan Vilfan <bostjanv@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: 1456@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 3:06:01 PM
Subject: Re: bug#1456: Cannot Put Non-ASCII Characters in Init Files
> See for example the files buff-menu.el and ibuffer.el in the Emacs
> distribution (you can use M-x locate-library) for the two ways to
> specify coding. Don't forget it must be a comment line in the "first
> line in file" method.
>
> Beyond that, any problem may be specific to your init file. Start with
> an empty one and see that works. Then remove a half at a time from the
> real file until you narrow down the problem. Starting with
> "--debug-init" can also help.
Did you manage to track down the problem?
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