I'm trying to find some summary explanation of the different ways Emacs handles UTF-8. There seem to be many different possible settings (set-language-environment and set-default-encoding-system and ...) -- and there seem to be distinctions between reading, displaying, writing, etc. I have not been able to find anything that explains these distinctions. So far, I haven't found a way to set one variable somewhere so that makes everything within emacs read, write, and display UTF-8. Is there such a variable?
At the moment I am able to write and display Swedish characters within Emacs. However: - if I reply to an email, the cited version will be full of junk characters instead of the Swedish characters (which display fine in the original email I recieved). My mail application is VM, if that makes any difference. - if I run a Scheme program on a data file that includes Swedish characters, the returned values will include junk characters for the Swedish ones (and again, in this case, I am able to open the file and see the Swedish characters perfectly). Aside from solving these *particular* problems I would like to find some good *model* for how Emacs handles UTF-8. I'm running Emacs 21.3 under Debian, and below are some settings from .emacs file. (set-language-environment 'UTF-8) (set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8) (setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8) (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8) (setq coding-system-for-write 'utf-8) (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8) thanks for any help. _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
