[Erc-discuss] Re: utf-8?

[Tom Rauchenwald]

Andreas Davour <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi!
>
> I chat with people who don't like to get utf-8 encoded characters. Is
> there a way to customize erc (or emacs) to use iso-8859-1 instead? I'm
> lousy at character encodings and have never really understood how to
> make emacs behave, neither now erc.

I use the following in my .emacs:

(setq erc-server-coding-system (quote (iso-8859-1 . undecided)))

If you want more fine-grained control, look up the following:

,----[ C-h v erc-encoding-coding-alist RET ]
| erc-encoding-coding-alist is a variable defined in `erc-backend.el'.
| Its value is nil
| 
| 
| Documentation:
| Alist of target regexp and coding-system pairs to use.
| This overrides `erc-server-coding-system' depending on the
| current target as returned by `erc-default-target'.
| 
| Example: If you know that the channel #linux-ru uses the coding-system
| `cyrillic-koi8', then add '("#linux-ru" . cyrillic-koi8) to the
| alist.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
| 
| [back]
`----

> /Andreas

Tom