From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Ascii character typeing Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:17:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <1153217054.336610.9850@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <91aa7$44c143a4$49ede01$14044@DIALUPUSA.NET> <799f$44c37e22$49fa638$4569@DIALUPUSA.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154432481 32065 80.91.229.2 (1 Aug 2006 11:41:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:41:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 01 13:41:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7scc-0007bS-QG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:41:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G7scc-000217-6k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:41:14 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1154431060 12076 166.84.1.2 (1 Aug 2006 11:17:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 11:17:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140776 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36401 Archived-At: >> >> I doubt your buffer uses the us-ascii coding system. `C-h v >> buffer-file-coding-system' to see what it does use. > >Right you are. This varialbe shows "utf-8." And, as Pascal notes, Mine shows raw-text-unix. Pros? Cons? Seems to work ok for me, but then I'm not doing French or Chinese or anything like that. Actually, I might like to see french or spanish text sometime. Thanks, David