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

[Themos Tsikas]

Those characters used to work for a specific IBM font on the RS/6000. I 
believe that the encoding is cp850 or ibm850. When you use a font with an 
iso8859 encoding, you get the mess you describe.


On Friday 17 November 2006 18:23, 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:
>
> 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.
>
> Example:
>
> When entering 1/x, I get
>
> 1
> Ä
> x
>
> instead of
>
> 1
> -
> x
>
> 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! :-(
>
> 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?)
>