Re: Can't isearch 'ö'

[Stefan Monnier]

> In a text buffer starting with

>       ;;; -*- mode: Emacs-Lisp; coding: iso-8859-15; -*-

> I have a line

>           (message "konventionell-römisch")

> which I can't find with C-s ö. It's always "Failing I-search: ö."

How do you input the ö?
The problem is that the ö you type at the isearch prompt is a latin-1
ö whereas the one in the buffer is a latin-9 ö (Emacs's internal
representation of characters has such duplicates).
Try M-x unify-8859-on-decoding-mode RET (before you even open the file).


        Stefan