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Re: umlauts (8bit characters) input
From: |
Hendrik Sattler |
Subject: |
Re: umlauts (8bit characters) input |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Feb 2005 01:41:03 +0100 |
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Peter Dyballa wrote:
> ; (set-language-environment 'UTF-8)
> (set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
> (setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (setq coding-system-for-write 'utf-8)
> ; (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
> ;; (set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
> ;; (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
> ; (set-language-environment 'German)
I don't understand why emacs should need all that. There are locales and
they define a system charset, emacs should use that as default.
> It's always helpful to check what Emacs actually receives: C-h k and then
> you type the umlaut.
It gets M-| for the 'ü', '|' is 0x7C and 'ü' ist 0xFC, so the 8th bit is
ignored.
Does emacs care for readline settings?
> Probably your Linux system too uses UTF-8 as file-name-coding-system ...
No, the locale de_DE@euro has ISO-8859-15 as character set, nothing fancy.
I really want to get that guy that said that ASCII and thus 7bit is a useful
default :-(((((
HS