Ok, thanks for help to all that replied. I tried to learn a bit;-) Putting iso-8859-1 in the header instead of utf-8 as Tomas Zerolo suggested solved the problem.
----- Original Message ----- From: Juanma Barranquero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:44 pm Subject: Re: Problem with national characters in XHTML > On 9/28/05, LENNART BORGMAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have run into a problem with swedish national characters in an > XHTML document. The header of the document is like this: > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> > > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> > > > > The swedish character ä looks like \344 in CVS Emacs (2005-09-23). > > Hmm. An XHTML document with encoding="utf-8" should not have "swedish > national characters" in it, should it? Upon reading the file, Emacs > will set its coding system to mule-utf-8, so it's no surprise than > high-bit, non-valid utf8 byte sequences appear as \xxx... > > I've created a document with your header, and put an "É" in it with > notepad. Emacs shows this char as \311. I would not consider this an > error :) > > -- > /L/e/k/t/u > _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel