Re: How do I get emacs to display accented characters?

[Kai Großjohann]

jay@m5.chi.il.us (Jay F. Shachter) writes:

> When I use XEmacs, I have no problem.  When the buffer contains, e.g.,
> "Rick's Café Américain", XEmacs displays "Rick's Café Américain".
> Emacs, on the other hand, displays "Rick's Cafe Americain".  Unless
> I do (load-library "iso-ascii"), in which case it displays "Rick's
> Caf{'e} Am{'e}ricain".  Nothing I do has succeeding in getting Emacs
> to display "Rick's Café Américain" like XEmacs does.
>
> These are the things that I have done, which have had no effect:
>  (set-terminal-coding-system 'iso-latin-1-unix)
>  (setq unibyte-display-via-language-environment t)
>  (set-language-environment 'Latin-1)

Are you loading latin1-disp, perhaps?

Hm.  Strange.  Are you running in a terminal or under X11?

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