Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-15 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 8/13/05, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) Exactly that's what everybody has been telling me... I now found the reason for emacs not liking utf-8 files: I still had included a many years old emacs package from our local administrator that had been designed

Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-15 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 8/12/05, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shoot 'em to me. I'd love to help make it a smoother transition. My broad suggestion is to run vimtutor (it should be installed), and go ahead and start learning everything the vim way, such as hjkl for movement, etc. It pays off fairly

Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim MacBaine wrote: Short question: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs? Those files contains German quotation marks, Umlauts and other interesting things. I am using GNU Emacs right now and don't appear to me to be having any trouble editing UTF-8 encoded files. The only special

Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-12 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 8/11/05, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a public service to all Emacs inflictees, I hereby offer my .vimrc services to anyone who might convert. Tell me what your ~/.emacs used to do for you, and I'll give you equivalent or better solutions, guaranteed. I'm serious, too.

Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-10 Thread Ryan King
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 07:50:59PM +0200, Jim MacBaine wrote: I'm quite stuck now. Vim works in the utf-8 xterm out of the box. Maybe I should give up my emacs macros and consider to learn Vim... As a public service to all Emacs inflictees, I hereby offer my .vimrc services to anyone who might

How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-09 Thread Jim MacBaine
Hello, Short question: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs? Those files contains German quotation marks, Umlauts and other interesting things. Long explanation: I'm in the need to reply to windows-1251-encoded emails and to keep all those special characters like the ellipses, German

Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-09 Thread René Seindal
Jim MacBaine wrote (09-08-2005 18:59): How do I tell emacs that the file I'm editing is utf-8-encoded? http://linux.seindal.dk/item32.html -- René Seindal ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-09 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 8/9/05, I wrote: Hello, Short question: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs? Those files contains German quotation marks, Umlauts and other interesting things. [...] How do I tell emacs that the file I'm editing is utf-8-encoded? What I have tried so far includes starting

Re: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs?

2005-08-09 Thread Jim MacBaine
On 8/9/05, René Seindal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim MacBaine wrote (09-08-2005 18:59): How do I tell emacs that the file I'm editing is utf-8-encoded? http://linux.seindal.dk/item32.html Unfortunately, this does not help. I put the lines, the author suggests, to my .emacs. I still see