From: Chip Coldwell <coldwell@redhat.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: regex encoding
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 16:40:32 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608011639420.2363@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608011631400.2363@localhost.localdomain>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: TEXT/PLAIN, Size: 1531 bytes --]
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Chip Coldwell wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Reiner Steib wrote:
>>
>> | [a-zA-ZÄÖÜäößü]
>>
>> If you intend to send UTF-8, you MUA should not declare it as
>> "Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1". ;-)
>
> Ooops. I haven't tamed my MUA yet. It's only been ten years.
>
>>> My question is: are emacs regex character classes limited to the
>>> iso-8859-1 character set, or is there some way to represent Unicode
>>> (such as UTF-8) characters in a character class?
>>
>> AFAIK, you can write the chars in UTF-8 if you specify the encoding of
>> the lisp file, cf. (info "(emacs)Specify Coding"):
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> ;; -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>> (defun rs-test ()
>> (interactive)
>> (re-search-forward "[ÄÖÜäößü]"))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> I don't know if there's a reason why isn't used in `ispell.el'.
>
> The particular issue is that ispell is currently broken if your LANG
> environment variable specifies UTF-8 encoding, your buffer is UTF-8
> encoded and contains one of these non-ASCII characters, and you
> specify the "deutsch8" dictionary. ispell-word generates the error:
>
> "Ispell and its process have different character maps"
I should also mention that this is with aspell version 0.6; version
0.5 seems to do the right thing regardless.
Chip
--
Charles M. "Chip" Coldwell
Senior Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc
978-392-2426
[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 142 bytes --]
_______________________________________________
Emacs-devel mailing list
Emacs-devel@gnu.org
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-01 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-01 19:09 regex encoding Chip Coldwell
2006-08-01 19:46 ` Reiner Steib
2006-08-01 20:38 ` Chip Coldwell
2006-08-01 20:40 ` Chip Coldwell [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.64.0608011639420.2363@localhost.localdomain \
--to=coldwell@redhat.com \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.