I'm floundering and need a little guidance. I'm running emacs 21.2.1 on debian 3.0, and the default coding system is utf-16. That is, when I save any file in emacs having an accented character, it doubles in size and is a 16-bit file.
The problem with this is that none of my other apps can cope with that. Nedit, for exmaple, can't read it. My browser also can't cope. What I need is to have all my files 8-bit. The default coding system in emacs is determined by how I've set up locales in debian. I went back to my installation notes, and according to them, I had set the locale to utf-8. How do I find out what coding system I'm currently using? When I run # locale, all I get is LANG=POSIX, etc. If I run # locale -a, all I get is POXIX and C. Apparently I'm climbing the wrong tree. If my coding system turns out to be utf-16, how do I change it to utf-8? If it is presently utf-8, why does emacs default to utf-16? Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
