Re: Problem with multilingual input?

[martin rudalics]

> On Windows I tried your suggestion (set-language-environment) and the
> result was the same (empty rectangles). Then I selected
> Options->Mule-Show All of Mule Status and read off the current
> language environment as UTF-8. Thus, language environment equals utf-8
> or English does not influence the outcome.

Sorry for the delay.  I hoped someone else would respond but apparently
all language environment experts are busy at the moment.  Please CC to
bug-gnu-emacs when answering - maybe we'll get qualified help.

> On Linux the outcome is OK (cyrillic characters visible), again

The correct name of this OS is GNU/Linux.

> regardless of the language environment settings (utf-8 or English)

When I have a file saved with mule-utf-8 containing the two lines

bla bla
бла бла

visit the file with `current-language-environment' utf-8 and do
`describe-char' for the first character of the first line I get

  character: b (98, #o142, #x62, U+0062)
    charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
 code point: #x62
     syntax: w  which means: word
   category: a:ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0]) l:Latin
buffer code: #x62
  file code: #x62 (encoded by coding system mule-utf-8-dos)
    display: by this font (glyph code)
     -outline-Courier New-normal-r-normal-normal-16-96-120-120-c-*-iso8859-1 
(#x62)

`describe-char' for the first character of the second line gets me

  character: б (332881, #o1212121, #x51451, U+0431)
    charset: mule-unicode-0100-24ff (Unicode characters of the range 
U+0100..U+24FF.)
 code point: #x28 #x51
     syntax: w  which means: word
   category: y:Cyrillic
buffer code: #x9C #xF4 #xA8 #xD1
  file code: #xD0 #xB1 (encoded by coding system mule-utf-8-dos)
    display: by this font (glyph code)
     -outline-Courier New-normal-r-normal-normal-16-96-120-120-c-*-iso10646-1 
(#x431)

on WindowsME.  What do you get?