Re: [Axiom-mail] Axiom in Emacs - a little problem

[C Y]

Franz Huber wrote:
> After having found too much problems with Axiom in WinTeXmacs, I´ve now 
> switched to Emacs as an user interface for Axiom.
> 
> With the Lisp script on the 'Axiom in Emacs' site (by Cliff Yapp) it was easy 
> to get a working and quite comfortable UI for Axiom -
> there´s only one problem left for me:

COOL!  Thanks for trying it out.  Be warned though - in my testing the
behavior of turning a changed expression red doesn't work correctly on
Windows, except in the latest CVS build.

> I would prefer switch to the 'default' character set for Axiom´s output, 
> because this set looks better IMO.
> But after entering the necessary command
> 
> )set output character default
> 
> I don´t get the expected graphical characters for ASCII codes > 128,
> but some special international letter like Ä, Ù and so on.

While I cannot assign a root cause with certainty, this might be due to
lack of support for this in Emacs. IIRC the default Emacs doesn't have
unicode support, so perhaps the default character setting is giving it
something it can't understand.  My Emacs also fails this test.

> Example:
> 
> When entering 1/x, I get
> 
> 1
> Ä
> x

I get

1
\304
x

If I do the following:

(standard-display-european t)

(let ((m (current-input-mode)))
  (set-input-mode (car m) (nth 1 m) 1))

I get your result.

> In the meantime I´ve looked at dozens of Internet sites for Emacs and I´ve 
> tried almost everything having to to with 
> configuring character sets, languages and so on, but without any
success! :-(

Unfortunately emacs-cvs with xft support also fails to fix this :-(.
Not sure what the problem is.

> So my question:
> Does anybody know how to configure Emacs, that it will show all ASCII 
> characters (also the graphic 
> chars > 128) in the usual way, i.e. without any translations?
> (Or maybe this has to be done in the above mentioned Lisp script, which calls 
> Axiom?)

I'm afraid I don't know.  Sorry!

Cheers,
CY