> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:31:17PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > The default coding system in emacs is determined by how I've set up > > locales in debian. I went back to my installation notes, and according > > to them, I had set the locale to utf-8. > > I don't know exactly how emacs decides what coding system to use for > new files. But this might be useful. This is from the emacs manual, in > the section on international character set support, in the subsection > about specifying coding: > > "The variable `default-buffer-file-coding-system' specifies > the choice of coding system to use when you create a new file. > It applies when you find a new file, and when you create a buffer > and then save it in a file. Selecting a language environment > typically sets this variable to a good choice of default coding > system for that language environment."
The operative word here may be "typically." Despite some debate on this issue, it seems my emacs 21.2.1 is supposed to support mule-ucs quite well. > So I think you can either solve this by setting that variable or by > changing your language environment. Something was indeed broken in setting my language environment, but it is now apparently fixed. That is, after several configuration attempts, $ locales now finally does return LANG=en_US.UTF-8. I finally have that coding system listed in /etc/locales.gen. However, emacs still does not see it. Do you know of any little test that might use the default coding system? For example, I could view a text having accented chars in nedit, but it seems nedit does not support them. Galeon does not disply utf-8 chars either. Setting the variable may be a useful work-around, but I'd rather find out what is the cause of the problem. I do intend to return the emacs forum to pursue it from that side, however. Bijan, thanks for the suggestions. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
