Re: guide to emacs encoding?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.01.2006 um 10:42 schrieb no_one_reads_it@gmx.net:

> I often come across problems when using files that have been  
> written by
> other people. Mostly it's french texts and as those people use
> different encodings than I do, accented characters aren't displayed
> correctly or I get lots of ^M escape caracters instead of carriage
> return. I would like to know whether there is a guide to how one can
> handle different encodings using gnu emacs on a linux system.


There is: in GNU Emacs' info system. There is too the "Options" menu,  
which has "Mule (Multilingual Environment)" that leads to some other  
entries, for example "Set Coding Systems." You can choose some other  
entry there, for example "Describe Coding System" and choose one. In  
The *Help* buffer you'll find some hyper links into the info  
system ... for example in 'International' or 'International Character  
Set Support' -- they share some text.

It's helpful to have an environment variable like LANG set. GNU Emacs  
will then set a few things right and you would not need to set for  
example:

        (set-language-environment               'German)
        (setq default-file-name-coding-system   'utf-8)
        (setq file-name-coding-system           'utf-8)
        (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'iso-latin-9-unix))
        (set-default-coding-systems             'mac-roman-unix)
        ;(setq mac-keyboard-text-encoding        kTextEncodingISOLatin1)
        (set-keyboard-coding-system             'sjis-mac)
        (set-clipboard-coding-system            'sjis-mac)
        (prefer-coding-system                   'mac-roman-unix)
        (modify-coding-system-alist      'file "\\.tex\\'" 'iso-latin-9-unix)
	(modify-coding-system-alist	 'process "\\*[Ss][Hh][Ee][Ll][Ll].*\\'"  
'utf-8-unix)
        ;(set-buffer-process-coding-system      'utf-8 'utf8)

Some of the values used here are non-sense. At least you'll find  
explanations for the variables or the functions.

--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen

  Pete

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