Re: wikipedia and UTF8 coding (emacs21)

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Nov 03 2005, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Am 03.11.2005 um 15:37 schrieb Uwe Brauer:
>
>> Has anybody experience with wikipedia article using UTF8 coding.
>>
> I'm not experienced with this, but I am sure that
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                ^^^^^^^^^

Convincing.  :-)

> you need at least two things:
>
>       1. fonts (in X11 or such) with these glyphs

ACK

>       2. GNU Emacs 23 from CVS

I'd guess that Uwe prevailingly needs Spanish and German non-ASCII
characters.  Those are sufficiently supported by already in Emacs 21
with (add-to-list 'file-coding-system-alist '("/wikipedia/" utf-8)) as
suggested by Stefan.  With this entry every file in .../wikipedia/ is
de- and encoded with UTF-8.

For example, I wrote the following in Emacs 21 and everything is
displayed correctly:

  ÄÖÜ äöü ß „Hallo Welt und Grüß Gott“
  éíúáó ÉÍÚÁÓ ñ¡¿ ¡Hola!
  “Hello world” ∑ α 

> GNU Emacsen 21.4 and 22 (from CVS) fail to show a particular glyph
> when it's not in the font or fontset used.

Maybe there's something wrong in your fontset config or your system.

My Emacs 21, correctly uses
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 for “ü” and
-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1 for “α”.

Bye, Reiner.
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