Re: problem with UTF-8 when accessing Emacs installed on iMac from ssh session on the iPad

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Carl Bolduc <carlbolduc@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:12:06 -0400
> 
> On the iPad, I use Prompt
> (http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for-ios/) to
> open a ssh session on my Mac and run Emacs remotely. Whenever I try to
> add a "French" character such as "é" or "è", I get "\351" in the
> buffer and Emacs will complain if I try to save the file. If I switch
> the coding system to iso-8859-1, I can enter the French chars without
> any problems.
> 
> Is there a setting I can change to make UTF-8 work when I access Emacs
> through ssh?

Are you saying that existing text is displayed correctly, and the
problem is with typing French characters?  If so, please tell what
does the following display in Emacs:

  M-: keyboard-coding-system RET

Also, is this a GUI (graphical) session or a text-mode session?