Re: Latex, utf8, and verbatim in GNU Emacs 22.1.1

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Feb 22 2008, Ásványi Tibor wrote:

> The letters with accents in the verbatim environment
> appear in a strange way.
>
> When I compile the LaTeX file into dvi, everything is good.  Even if
> I copy and paste the text, the characters appear correctly.  Even if
> I mistype the text '\begin{verbatim}', the characters appear
> correctly, again.

Text inside verbatim is displayed using the face `tex-verbatim' [1]
(or `font-latex-verbatim-face' when using AUCTeX [2]).

So my guess is that the your "courier" font is not a "unicode font".

Bye, Reiner.

[1]
(defface tex-verbatim
  ;; '((t :inherit font-lock-string-face))
  '((t :family "courier"))
  "Face used to highlight TeX verbatim environments."
  :group 'tex)

,----[ M-x describe-char RET ]
|   character: ö (2294, #o4366, #x8f6, U+00F6)
|     charset: latin-iso8859-1
| [...]
|     display: by this font (glyph code)
|      -Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--12-120-75-75-M-70-ISO8859-1 (#xF6)
| 
| There are text properties here:
|   face                 tex-verbatim
|   fontified            t
`----

[2]
(defface fixed-pitch
  '((t :family "courier"))
  "The basic fixed-pitch face."
  :group 'basic-faces)

,----[ M-x describe-char RET ]
|       character: ö (2294, #o4366, #x8f6, U+00F6)
|         charset: latin-iso8859-1
| [...]
|         display: by this font (glyph code)
|      -Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--12-120-75-75-M-70-ISO8859-1 (#xF6)
| 
| There are text properties here:
|   face                 font-latex-verbatim-face
|   fontified            t
`----
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