From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unknown character encodings in .emacs Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:38:54 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7bef1f890806070632y347af376g3e7796ee907c78b1@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212863961 2060 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2008 18:39:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 18:39:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Alan E. Davis" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 07 20:40:04 2008 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 4.50) id 1K53Kd-0001Pe-Us for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:40:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38824 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K53Jq-0001cH-VS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:39:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K53Jb-0001bz-I7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K53JZ-0001bW-3j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:38:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58293 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K53JY-0001bT-T4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:38:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:40835) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K53JY-0004Il-RK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:38:57 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEF5DE331277; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 20:38:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [77.135.55.255] (helo=thursday-2.local) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.109 #226) id 1K53JX-0002WD-00; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:38:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890806070632y347af376g3e7796ee907c78b1@mail.gmail.com> (Alan E. Davis's message of "Sat\, 7 Jun 2008 23\:32\:32 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (darwin) X-Sender: n_schumacher@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/eClXvwLiRmCmxRy2xpEoLVCJgQiNQ/3kIEhw+ qMu/cgcwXFlpur1u61OTm+Y6IvMsjGKCU17/vu0/CR8t+wCHho XmkvGPNS/G0x3FXKvYkA== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:54587 Archived-At: "Alan E. Davis" wrote: > I'be been poking around, but don't have a clue where to start. > I never did understand encoding Well, that's a clue where to start, I suppose. :) > ("a`" "=C3=83=C6=92=C3=82=C2=A1" nil 1) Looks like the file has been written using UTF-8 and read using Latin-1. Try adding: (set-language-environment "UTF-8") However, I believe this shouldn't be necessary if the system is configured correctly. What OS do you use? regards, Nikolaj Schumacher