From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 23 - german characters - babel/rdictcc Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:39:42 +0200 Organization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark Message-ID: References: <271wdrcdsn.fsf@homelinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188139310 29745 80.91.229.12 (26 Aug 2007 14:41:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:41:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 26 16:41:49 2007 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 1IPJJD-0001ni-Hl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:41:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPJJC-0007lK-TJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:41:46 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Trace: individual.net T9Nl/TICjckWDJn3L4wvpAj4Je4z0DKYYG2J992hoBuuOaY7Wq X-Orig-Path: news.individual.net!news Cancel-Lock: sha1:FDtDSAHmX89hm4QEL6WkH6D9csg= sha1:4miWk/VL7KsSYF7uTTMh8AZGFj4= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAGFBMVEUPDQ1bVEeWcSHosxDD ojimpJ76+vnczqjhNce/AAAACXBIWXMAAABIAAAASABGyWs+AAAB6UlEQVQ4y22UvW4TQRDHf7P2 paG4vSTuDwMlQgJRUfiIEC22gqnT2G/AcySU4AJTX4EfgMI8AMISdRTTEpRdu/MHWYq9r/g8zWr3 d/+Z2ZnZU8PCBv1+uRkqcnOjNB3ZYlsAGQEu1TWwBhB3UQOhXzY1MAZwOL0LcpvXQAQSwbQGhl15 PyiVBQg+CX8+d7E1hUPbv3sUL5Jf7cXBtA6mzZDl4z2K5CeAxu2/h2VbD251dEQQ6t0Yz5wT3dvY i7vALQ5Pj56GzaKMOdgcMMcgGmerQMZvXBQBZzCpghU6T4u1roCxeCAt4EMJNjBHQG5/a1iVwNDS OHASdr2/IqskW6WFD+/BJMhbzVLA5cAhZWVC2OZgSyGApKIwnO0WGQXIpOg0EJe1Wlc95YPls1pQ MwXQ1vruaexBI7r/pTj7MQMBFBJdIasiuo6hMQPF5TcLcf5iBAtPLCi5Ami6cw9urWo/QED5VF28 8c4OtWjNVhfV1dn838wR4Dsqe0KNoAtA6i++nSnJbnoCwD2bpZeof1k61xbk+jyrjlRGNE3Tj1+z xjRPrJIw+8gZA7g50OxYlDx/6YwFS9SLelHkENOxoDDLR6cuNOZdv9Vv9bvW3DzMp8QtXmnz2jsM EoK47AfHg+yXwfHbDgD/AWsIohF8qgD0AAAAGnpUWHRKUEVHLUNvbG9yc3BhY2UAAHjaMwIAADMA MxEWfmMAAAAqelRYdEpQRUctU2FtcGxpbmctZmFjdG9ycwAAeNozqjDSMaww1DGsMAQAEYMC6QbE yigAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151300 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:46869 Archived-At: Hadron writes: > David Hansen writes: > >> On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:58:16 +0200 Hadron wrote: >> >>> Hadron writes: >>> >>>> I can now type german characters just fine in emacs 23. >>>> >>>> But when I invoke certain programs which talk to external processes such >>>> as rdictcc, I get escaped characters back in the reply. e.g highlighting >>>> "bridges" and invoking rdictcc gives a buffer like: >> >> That's probably `rdictcc's (whatever it is) fault. You can let bind >> `coding-system-for-read' and `coding-system-for-write' to latin-1 to >> tell Emacs to expect latin-1 encoded text from the process. >> >> David > > It works fine in emacs 22 for some reason. > The following made it work. I must admit to not having a clue why - the plethora of options for locales, coding, fonts etc is mind numbingly complex :) (When I say "why it worked", I never had this line before and it all just worked in emacs 22 - so I guess it was picking up defaults from X or some such.). (set-locale-environment "de") -- BOO! We changed Coke again! BLEAH! BLEAH!