Re: Encoding (latin-5) on Emacs 22

[Burak Bayramli]

Hi Peter, yes I was seeing only boxes but I was able to fix the problem. 
I changed this

(set-language-environment "Turkish")

to this

(set-language-environment "UTF-8")

and the characters started displaying fine. Thanks for your response.

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 02.01.2008 um 21:18 schrieb Burak Bayramli:
>
> > Emacs won't show the characters as they are
>
> What do you mean with this? Seeing only boxes? Then you've chosen the 
> wrong font or wrong fontset which simply does not contain these 
> accented characters so it can't display them.
>
> A good start is to have shell environment variables LC_CTYPE and LANG 
> defined to something like de_DE.UTF-8, that your system supports, 
> maybe: tr_TR.UTF-8. This would help GNU Emacs a lot to set up things 
> internally. It won't solve the font problem. This one might be solved 
> by the Lucida fonts form a Java SDK ...
>
> Do you see Turkish texts better when you launch GNU Emacs with -Q?
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
> The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget 
> cuts.