"knubee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
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