Problems with diacritics in Mountain Lion + Org Mode

Problems with diacritics in Mountain Lion + Org Mode

[Pierfranco Minsenti]

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Hi all,

I' am using since a few days Mac OS X Mountain Lion and found that while
retaining all my previous Org mode settings and Aquamacs settings, now I am
unable to obtain diacritics in Org Mode that is letters such as è à etc.

I only obtain them displayed in Org when they are inside a Org heading
For example: I can write:

* è

and the è is correctly displayed.

But not when I write it in the text.

The symbol of a square appears instead of accented letters.

The coding systems I used with previous Mac OS X (Snow Leopard and Lion) is
always the same: that is UTF8
If I try to insert diacritics opening the virtual keyboard from upper menu
in Mac OS X nothing change: I always obtain the symbol of a square.

This problem seems to affects only Org Mode because if I use another mode
in Aquamacs I have no problems at all in displaying diacritics.

So I am unable to understand what is the cause of this problem.

Has anybody found this? Any idea how to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

Pierfranco

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Re: Problems with diacritics in Mountain Lion + Org Mode

[Bastien]

Hi Pierfranco,

Pierfranco Minsenti <pierfranco.minsenti@gmail.com> writes:

> Has anybody found this? Any idea how to fix it?

Do you have this error with 

emacs -Q
C-x f ~/myfile.org
[some diacritics]

?

If you use another version of Org on top of the Emacs version,
maybe you can also check emacs -Q + loading this version and see
what does not works.

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Problems with diacritics in Mountain Lion + Org Mode

[Pierfranco Minsenti]

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Sorry I didnt' mention that I use the latest version of everything: so
Org 7.8.11 and Aquamacs version 2.4. based on GNU Emacs 23.3.50.1.

Bastien thanks for the suggestion.
I have tried what you suggested and used Emacs from the Terminal
Application in Mac OS X: in this case I have no problems. Diacritics
inserted in the org file by hitting the proper key in the Italian keyboard
layout are correctly displayed:

File Edit Options Buffers Tools Help


diacritics è

à ì

diacritics are displayed


-uuu:---F1  myfile.org     All L1
(Fundamental)-----------------------------
Loading image...done

What should I do to check which version of Emacs is charged when I use the
Terminal application?

Pierfranco


2012/8/24 Bastien <bzg@altern.org>

> Hi Pierfranco,
>
> Pierfranco Minsenti <pierfranco.minsenti@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Has anybody found this? Any idea how to fix it?
>
> Do you have this error with
>
> emacs -Q
> C-x f ~/myfile.org
> [some diacritics]
>
> ?
>
> If you use another version of Org on top of the Emacs version,
> maybe you can also check emacs -Q + loading this version and see
> what does not works.
>
> --
>  Bastien
>

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Re: Problems with diacritics in Mountain Lion + Org Mode

[Bastien]

Hi Pierfranco,

Pierfranco Minsenti <pierfranco.minsenti@gmail.com> writes:

> What should I do to check which version of Emacs is charged when I
> use the Terminal application?

M-x emacs-version RET
M-x org-version RET

I'm not a Mac user, but I'm pretty sure ~$ emacs from the Terminal
is *not* linked to the Aquamacs executable.

I don't know what is the equivalent to "~$ emacs -Q" for launching 
a bare Aquamacs instance, but maybe for now just remove any .emacs.el 
and see if the problem comes from your configuration?

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Problems with diacritics in Mountain Lion + Org Mode

[Achim Gratz]

Pierfranco Minsenti writes:
> The symbol of a square appears instead of accented letters.

The most likely explanation is that the font you are using isn't
includig those code points.  Try a different font.


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: Problems with diacritics in Mountain Lion + Org Mode

[Moritz Ulrich]

Bastien writes:

> Hi Pierfranco,
>
> Pierfranco Minsenti <pierfranco.minsenti@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> What should I do to check which version of Emacs is charged when I
>> use the Terminal application?
>
> M-x emacs-version RET
> M-x org-version RET
>
> I'm not a Mac user, but I'm pretty sure ~$ emacs from the Terminal
> is *not* linked to the Aquamacs executable.
>
> I don't know what is the equivalent to "~$ emacs -Q" for launching
> a bare Aquamacs instance, but maybe for now just remove any .emacs.el
> and see if the problem comes from your configuration?

Just confirming your assumption:

Emacs in terminal usually doesn't link to Aquamacs.app.

moritz@Moritzs-MacBook-Air ~ % /usr/bin/emacs --version
GNU Emacs 22.1.1

Pretty old. (I'm on Lion, not Mountain Lion, but I don't think there's a
difference)


Aquamacs itself is pretty horrible. It breaks so many things from Emacs.
I'd suggest moving to Emacs.app, installed via Homebrew or downloaded
from http://emacsformacosx.com/

Homebrew will take care of linking emacs to /usr/local/bin/, the .app
from the website won't.

--
Moritz Ulrich