From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rustom Mody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: locale -> coding system Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 22:33:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382765713 447 80.91.229.3 (26 Oct 2013 05:35:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 05:35:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 26 07:35:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VZwWr-0001DX-Rq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 07:35:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33543 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZwWq-0000RJ-Vh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 01:35:16 -0400 X-Received: by 10.236.134.169 with SMTP id s29mr11979546yhi.47.1382765610592; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 22:33:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.109.197 with SMTP id hu5mr24963igb.16.1382765610138; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 22:33:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!i2no715632qav.0!news-out.google.com!z6ni93407pbu.0!nntp.google.com!o2no713561qas.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.47.19; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.47.19 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 05:33:30 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201953 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94221 Archived-At: On my debian desktop running xfce, emacs by default goes into unicode mode On my recentest ubuntu running unity, emacs shows a '1' instead of a 'U' and messes up non-ASCII characters unless I manually make it unicode by some means or other, like ;; -*- coding: utf-8 -*- or just setting it or whatever 1. How do I make emacs choose unicode in all cases? 2. There is some misconfiguration outside of emacs... where to look?