From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: insert umlaut Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:43:25 -0600 Message-ID: References: <03BA975F-E950-4B72-A2E5-F45F98504DA8@nf.mpg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276055094 4754 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2010 03:44:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 03:44:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 09 05:44:53 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OMCD4-0007sx-KN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:44:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49556 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OMCCw-0000hK-Cz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:44:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60914 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OMCCZ-0000ge-3D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:43:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OMCCX-00054e-ME for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53291) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OMCCX-00054U-D5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:43:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OMCCV-0007ig-VV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:43:35 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:43:35 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:43:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Macintosh/20100228) In-Reply-To: <03BA975F-E950-4B72-A2E5-F45F98504DA8@nf.mpg.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:73859 Archived-At: Stefan Vollmar wrote: > I am using an elisp insert statement to put text into a newly > generated buffer, this text contains a German Umlaut. The text is > displayed correctly in my .emacs-file, I also have a > (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) statement. Please show us the insert statement. When visiting ~/.emacs, what does `C-h C RET' display? When point is before the umlaut character in the insert statement, what does `C-u C-x =' display? > With Emacs 23.2 (Windows) the Umlaut is not displayed correctly (in > the newly generated buffer), with Aquamacs 2.0 it works just > fine. With both Emacsen, the .emacs-file yields "utf-8-unix" in the > modeline and "utf-8" for the newly created buffer. > > Is this a bug or is it a coincidence that this works in Aquamacs? There are a lot of variables to account for between the 2 platforms and the 2 Emacs versions. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA