Re: Trouble viewing accented characters

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 18.09.2008 um 15:41 schrieb Armando Martins:

> how can I view the accented characters correctly, please?

By setting the right encoding for the text in the buffer! The ISO  
Latin encodings are fine, some MS Losedos code pages (125[02]) also  
have LATIN SMALL LETTER [EO] WITH ACUTE on code points octal \351  
resp. \363.

The mode-line of a recent GNU Emacs shows the encoding used in the  
buffer, the Options menu has a Mule entry which lets you choose  
another coding system by reverting this file now (C-x RET r).

Setting environment variables like LANG or LC_CTYPE to a reasonable  
value can enable GNU Emacs to use this reasonable value to present  
you a text file's contents. You can also try to set

        (prefer-coding-system    'iso-8859-15)

in your init file.

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  Pete

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