Re: Somehow disp-table.el gets loaded on Mac OS X

[Stefan]

>>>>> In X11 disp-table does not hurt, but when running without windows in
>>>>> Apple's Terminal application umlauts are displayed as '?.'
>>>> Have you tried to set-terminal-coding-system ?
>>> No, I did not, because its not necessary.  GNU Emacs 21.3.50 works fine,
>>> so why is GNU Emacs 22.0.50 failing? That's the question ...
>> 
>> Then please check the value of terminal-coding-system with those two
>> versions of Emacs-CVS.

> mule-diag tells for 21.3.50: Coding system of the terminal: mule-utf-8
> and for 22.0.50: Coding system of the terminal: iso-latin-1

Hmm... so it should always be utf-8, good to know, thank.
Now why/where was it set to utf-8 before and why/where does it now override
it with latin-1 is the question.

Could you try with completely vanilla Emacsen (i.e. no extra package from
/Library/Application Support/Emacs, no .emacs, ...).  The most likely
problem is that some code somewhere calls standard-display-european.

> -- because of loading disp-table!

Do you have any particular reason to doubt me ?
I told you several times already that it's only a symptom and not the cause.
Of course, I may be wrong, but you seem really bent on the idea that
disp-table is evil and loading it is the cause of your problems, even tho
I haven't seen any evidence of it.

> When I set (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) deliberately for 22.0.50
> I can see the March's month name in German correct as 'März' and in the
> mode-line abbreviated as 'Mär' -- and the HELLO buffer is almost complete

Cool.


        Stefan