Hi, I run GNU Emacs 21.3.1. on Debian sarge. How do I have to make emacs show the correct letters, no matter if the encoding is latin-1, latin-15 or even utf-8? I try to switch to using mh-e so if this issue is not solved I always see those nasty combinations of whatever ... :-) I use an US-keyboard and my current .emacs setting, concerning the encoding, is:
-----snip------- ; ---- language-env DON'T MODIFY THIS LINE! ; $Id: emacs,v 1.4 1998/02/20 18:35:26 leutloff Exp leutloff $ ;;--- support european keys ------------------------------- (set-input-mode (car (current-input-mode)) (nth 1 (current-input-mode)) 0) ; don't use non-ascii (i.e. german umlauts) as word delimiter (if (>= emacs-major-version 21) (progn (set-language-environment "Latin-9") (setq selection-coding-system 'compound-text-with-extensions) ) (if (>= emacs-major-version 20) (set-language-environment "Latin-1") (require 'iso-syntax))) (require 'disp-table) ;;--- redefine some keys ---------------------------------- ;(global-set-key [backspace] 'backward-delete-char-untabify) ; the following line should not break delete char during incremental ; search - has this other disadvantages? (global-set-key "\177" 'backward-delete-char-untabify) (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char) (global-set-key [home] 'beginning-of-line) (global-set-key [end] 'end-of-line) ;(global-set-key [C-home] 'beginning-of-buffer) ;(global-set-key [C-end] 'end-of-buffer) ; entries needed by XEmacs: (global-set-key [(control home)] 'beginning-of-buffer) (global-set-key [(control end)] 'end-of-buffer) ;;--- Names for calendar command ------------------------- (defvar calendar-day-name-array ["Son" "Mon" "Die" "Mit" "Don" "Fre" "Sam"]) (defvar calendar-month-name-array ["Januar" "Februar" "März" "April" "Mai" "Juni" "Juli" "August" "September" "Oktober" "November" "Dezember"]) ; ---- language-env end DON'T MODIFY THIS LINE! -----snap---------------------------------- ANY help is very much appreciated :-) Thank you :-) ray