* How to select the default coding system
@ 2014-09-17 14:05 Mikael Djurfeldt
2014-09-18 2:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-21 1:13 ` Grant Rettke
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From: Mikael Djurfeldt @ 2014-09-17 14:05 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs; +Cc: Mikael Djurfeldt
Dear all,
I just got a question from a beginner Emacs user how to set the default
coding system. For some reason, he didn't get utf-8 by default (which he
wanted). He might have touched some setting which caused this.
Now, I'm myself an experienced Emacs user and once did have a complete
overview of Emacs functionality. But the multi-lingual envorpnment, coding
systems etc is new to me.
Trying to find the answer to this users question, I realized that the
complexity is too large even for me (elisp programmer) to find an answer in
reasonable time.
I started out browsing options in the GUI, trying to find an option for the
default coding system. I *did* find some coding system options under
"mule", but nothing which seemed to fit.
In the manual I found a function "prefer-coding-system", which I gather one
could place in .emacs.
Q: What is the natural way to specify the default coding system,
preferrably using the GUI (to facilitate things for this novel user).
Best regards,
Mikael D.
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* Re: How to select the default coding system
2014-09-17 14:05 How to select the default coding system Mikael Djurfeldt
@ 2014-09-18 2:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-21 1:13 ` Grant Rettke
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2014-09-18 2:46 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:05:04 +0200
> From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
> Cc: Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
>
> Q: What is the natural way to specify the default coding system,
> preferrably using the GUI (to facilitate things for this novel user).
It's supposed to be automatically set according to the user's locale.
If that user's locale is not UTF-8, then please ask them to provide
the details why they want UTF-8 nonetheless, because it could bite
them down the road.
To answer your question more directly, the command to set up a
certain locale environment is "M-x set-locale-environment". It
accepts the "pseudo-environment" "utf-8", as well as "normal" locale
names, such as "en_US.8859-1".
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* Re: How to select the default coding system
2014-09-17 14:05 How to select the default coding system Mikael Djurfeldt
2014-09-18 2:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2014-09-21 1:13 ` Grant Rettke
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Grant Rettke @ 2014-09-21 1:13 UTC (permalink / raw
To: mikael; +Cc: Emacs Help
Anywhere
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
In GUI
(setq x-select-request-type '(UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING))
On Windows
(set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-16le-dos)
Grant Rettke
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I just got a question from a beginner Emacs user how to set the default
> coding system. For some reason, he didn't get utf-8 by default (which he
> wanted). He might have touched some setting which caused this.
>
> Now, I'm myself an experienced Emacs user and once did have a complete
> overview of Emacs functionality. But the multi-lingual envorpnment, coding
> systems etc is new to me.
>
> Trying to find the answer to this users question, I realized that the
> complexity is too large even for me (elisp programmer) to find an answer in
> reasonable time.
>
> I started out browsing options in the GUI, trying to find an option for the
> default coding system. I *did* find some coding system options under
> "mule", but nothing which seemed to fit.
>
> In the manual I found a function "prefer-coding-system", which I gather one
> could place in .emacs.
>
> Q: What is the natural way to specify the default coding system,
> preferrably using the GUI (to facilitate things for this novel user).
>
> Best regards,
> Mikael D.
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