From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lewis Perin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: utf8 char display in buffer Date: 12 Jun 2009 11:39:46 -0400 Organization: Software Prostheses Message-ID: References: <7I2dndeTy7sqkLLXnZ2dnUVZ_gmdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244839979 13732 80.91.229.12 (12 Jun 2009 20:52:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:52:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 12 22:52:55 2009 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 1MFDk5-0002uO-PI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:52:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37632 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MFDk5-0002pK-Ci for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:52:53 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1244821187 29618 166.84.1.2 (12 Jun 2009 15:39:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:39:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169981 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:52:15 -0400 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:65217 Archived-At: ken writes: > [...] > Lewis, > > Thanks for posting. It's lonely out there when you're the only one with > a particular problem. The few, the proud... > To make sure we're suffering the same cyber-indignity, here's the > scenario as I see it (from an older version of emacs running on > Linux): > > 0) Some others and myself want to include some non-English characters in > a file being edited in emacs. Problems arise, however: > > 1) In a buffer which is already utf-8 encoded, I set the appropriate > input method, type in the desired characters. They display just peachy > and there is happiness in EmacsLand. > > 2) I save the buffer to a file, then close the buffer. > > 3) I visit the same file (i.e., load it again into emacs). Because it > has <!-- -*- coding: utf-8; -*- --> as the first line, it opens > utf-8 encoded. This is confirmed by the presence of a 'u' as the second > character in the status bar. I haven't been inserting that special first line. > 4) The text in the buffer displays fine, except that in place of each of > those non-English characters is a little empty box. With the cursor on > one of those boxes, an 'a' with a horizontal bar above it, doing "C-x > =", emacs returns "Char: ā (01210041, 331809, 0x51021, file ...)". > (While, in emacs the character after "Char:" is a little box, if I load > this same file into Firefox, that same character appears as it should, > as an 'a' with a horizontal bar above it. How it appears in your email > client will depend upon your email client.) My situation differs in that most of the non-ASCII characters (Chinese in my case) come through just fine. But the ones that don't have those irritating boxes in place of the correct glyphs. /Lew --- Lew Perin / perin@acm.org http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html