From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hendrik Sattler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: umlauts (8bit characters) input Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 01:41:03 +0100 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107218891 28507 80.91.229.6 (1 Feb 2005 00:48:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:48:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 01 01:48:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CvmD5-0005SZ-00 for ; Tue, 01 Feb 2005 01:48:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CvmPt-0002Np-U4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:01:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1107218462 00 18083 OCY1rRnvwkAYzq 050201 00:41:02 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: TFdKbuZTZeeZmt4dEVWnSALtQiA+xA4Re7a0hnGEqOX3uEnJoq156k User-Agent: KNode/0.8.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128288 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23796 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23796 Peter Dyballa wrote: > ; (set-language-environment 'UTF-8) > (set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8) > (setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8) > (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8) > (setq coding-system-for-write 'utf-8) > ; (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8) > (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) > ;; (set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-8) > ;; (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8) > ; (set-language-environment 'German) I don't understand why emacs should need all that. There are locales and they define a system charset, emacs should use that as default. > It's always helpful to check what Emacs actually receives: C-h k and then > you type the umlaut. It gets M-| for the 'ü', '|' is 0x7C and 'ü' ist 0xFC, so the 8th bit is ignored. Does emacs care for readline settings? > Probably your Linux system too uses UTF-8 as file-name-coding-system ... No, the locale de_DE@euro has ISO-8859-15 as character set, nothing fancy. I really want to get that guy that said that ASCII and thus 7bit is a useful default :-((((( HS