From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: erasurehead Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs, umlauts, x-windows text mark and paste Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:11:23 +0100 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071569887 22099 80.91.224.253 (16 Dec 2003 10:18:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:18:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 16 11:18:02 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AWCHC-00046V-00 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:18:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AWDC4-00054W-TZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:16:48 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!skynet.be!news.csl-gmbh.net!newsfeed.r-kom.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: vpn-nat-02-b.stw-bonn.de Original-X-Trace: f1node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de 1071569485 17478 131.220.99.52 (16 Dec 2003 10:11:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@f1node01.rhrz.uni-bonn.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Dec 2003 10:11:25 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4; MultiZilla v1.4.0.4A) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: en In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119370 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15309 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15309 Hello Harald and Sergei, thanks for your replies. I've tried setting LC_ALL to german, C, de_DE, de_DE@euro, and en_US.UTF-8 and then starting emacs. I can tell this makes a difference because the symbol in the lower lefthand corner of emacs which indicates the default encoding changes appropriately (e.g. -1 for de_DE (-> iso-8859-1), and -u for en_US.UTF-8) However pasting in the german text still makes garbage. Also, i tried running C-x RET f (set-buffer-file-coding-system) on the garbarged buffer and tried many different encodings (which one should I choose?), but it never changes the text in the buffer *one whit*! I would expect it to junk the entire screen if I pick chinese-big5-unix, but it doesn't seem to care, the buffer still looks the same. I had already tried this many times after reading all the mule garbage in the manual, and have never been able to get emacs to redisplay some buffer in a different encoding. :-( very frustrated, josh buhl