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Re: umlauts (8bit characters) input


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: umlauts (8bit characters) input
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 13:36:20 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Hendrik Sattler <sattler2000@gmx.de> writes:

> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> Are you running Emacs freely as an X11 client or is it
>> no-windows inside a terminal emulation? In the second case you're a bit
>> dependant of what the terminal emulation is doing. It might convert
>> 8bit to 7bit.
>
> Yes, it is a no-windows instance inside KDE's konsole because the X emacs
> interface is just sooo ugly. Konsole does not strip of the 8th bit, as
> EVERYTHING els is working just fine (bash, mcedit, even VI!). The absolutly
> only exception is emacs.
> And yes, if I change my locale to UTF-8, emacs shall just follow case
> without me having to edit the whole .emacs file again.

And Emacs does just that.  Throw out whatever customization of locales
and whatsoever you have in your .emacs, or start with an empty .emacs,
and it should work.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

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