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erasurehead <erasurehead@goatrance.net> writes:

> I've tried setting LC_ALL to german, C, de_DE, de_DE@euro, and
> en_US.UTF-8 and then starting emacs. I can tell this makes a
> difference because the symbol in the lower lefthand corner of emacs
> which indicates the default encoding changes appropriately (e.g. -1
> for de_DE (->
> iso-8859-1), and -u for en_US.UTF-8) However pasting in the german
> text still makes garbage.

I fear the character coding in mozilla differs from the emacs
encoding. What is the character coding in mozilla? You should find it
in mozilla under View -> Character Coding. 

Harald

PS: I am too not an expert in this mule stuff.