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: 10 Jun 2009 10:03:17 -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=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244708626 29338 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2009 08:23:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:23:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 11 10:23:44 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 1MEfZW-00059A-En for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:23:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46925 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MEfZV-0005EC-S6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:23:41 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1244642597 8730 166.84.1.2 (10 Jun 2009 14:03:17 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:03:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:169894 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:20:57 -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:65142 Archived-At: I've been following this thread closely because I have the original poster's problem, only the characters that give me trouble are some - not many, actually - Chinese characters, e.g. ni3, the normal second person pronoun. And, as with the original poster, the troublesome characters, when copied and pasted to other applications from Emacs, display perfectly. "B. T. Raven" writes: > [...] > (set-language-environment 'UTF-8) > (set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8) > (setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8) > (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8) > (setq coding-system-for-write 'utf-8) > (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8) > (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) > (set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-8) > (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8) > (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) > (modify-coding-system-alist 'process > "[cC][mM][dD][pP][rR][oO][xX][yY]" 'utf-8-dos) > > > and try C-x ret c utf-8 > C-x C-f > > to open the file. I tried this, but it didn't help. Emacs 22.3 / Win32. /Lew --- Lew Perin / perin@acm.org http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html