From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Non-ASCII characters in Emacs 21.2.1 Date: 28 Feb 2003 16:50:11 +0100 Organization: None Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046448776 5848 80.91.224.249 (28 Feb 2003 16:12:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:12:56 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18on83-0001W9-00 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:12:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18on70-0001fe-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:11:50 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!cicero.benny.turtle-trading.net!nobody Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 48 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110723 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7224 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7224 Hi, Kpn writes: > I am just starting to use GnuEmacs 21.2.1 after installing a > GnuLinux Red Hat distribution 8.0. > I am trying to write a text in spanish (with its non-Ascii > characters) and the results are not satisfactory. Non-ASCII is a bit vague ;-). You need to determine how these characters are encoded and handled by Emacs and by your environment to get to the root of the problem. > I see the accents and other non-ASCII charcters but the buffer is > not correctly saved. Put the cursor on a non-ASCII character in Emacs and type M-x describe-char-after RET What does the resulting help buffer say about the character set? While you are in the buffer that you want to save, type M-x describe-coding-system RET What is the result of that? > By invoking: > > $> more archive What is the character encoding that you use there? Can you type $> echo ñ | od -t x1 on your terminal, so we can see an example of what you use there? > The non-ASCII charcter are now incorrectly prompted on the > screen. Of course texing the archive does not make a correct dvi > file. What encoding does your version of TeX expect? Hope this helps, benny