From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dale Gerdemann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: abbreviations for Unicode Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:17:42 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235345639 16425 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2009 23:33:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:33:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 23 00:35:15 2009 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 1LbNqt-0001uX-Ay for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:35:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LbNpY-0007La-QF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:33:52 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!e18g2000yqo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.216.86.244 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1235333862 26910 127.0.0.1 (22 Feb 2009 20:17:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:17:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e18g2000yqo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.216.86.244; posting-account=hk_lOAoAAADIPFf7lZJynup5k5i5VMVG User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020911 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.6, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166961 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:31:31 -0500 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:62271 Archived-At: I've been editing files with lots of Unicode characters and I thought I might save time by using abbreviations for certain hard to type characters (I'm using Mule input methods for the easier stuff). Everything works okay when I edit the .abbrev_defs file myself, but the character encoding gets all screwed up when I let Emacs do the editing. That is, if I use C-x a g to interactively define an abbreviation, then this will work only for the current session. When I quit, I'm prompted with the question whether I want to save the .abbrev_defs file and if I say 'yes', then all the definitions I have are destroyed. I'm using GNU Emacs 22.2.1 on Ubuntu 8.10 with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 And btw, I'm mostly very happy with Unicode support in Emacs. My problem here is really in the category of minor annoyances. But I would like to fix it.