Re: Emacs on OS X Panther

[Sören Vogel]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Wrong newsgroup.

Oops. So, again:

Hi,

recently I've downloaded Mac-Emacs Version 21.3.50.1 from 
http://www.mindlube.com/products/emacs/. It installed fine on my 
iBook OS X 10.3 (Panther). Meanwhile, I could convince it to 
accept German Umlaute characters type and display correctly (many 
thanks to Patrick Gundlach) by adding these two lines into my .emacs:

(set-keyboard-coding-system 'mac-roman)
(custom-set-variables
 '(default-frame-alist (quote ((tool-bar-lines . 0) 
(menu-bar-lines . 1) (font . 
"-etl-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-mac")))))

To make it short, sometimes when opening files edited with BBEdit 
7 it falls to it's old strange behavior with neither displaying 
nor accepting German Umlaute types ;-(. Then, characters like öäüß 
(oau with double dots above and SS) are display with upgrave, 
promille, cyrillic comma and ligatur fl or even squares and other 
embarrassing stuff.

For four days now, I've been googling around to find an infinitive 
solution to keep Emacs working alright -- meaning with all types 
of character sets, but there was nothing to be find. In fact, I 
don't even have an idea what the error is. The help inside Emacs 
or some howtos around are somewhat spanish to me since there seem 
to be lots of options to set up, e.g. font, kbd-layout, 
text-encoding etc. I wasn't able to sample all this stuff into one 
solution sheet, moreover, I wasn't able to understand most of them.

Could anyone post some hints from his/her .emacs file or run 
several diagnostics with me? I plan to create a sheet on my 
website to describe how other can setup their Emacs on Mac 
alright, that is ;-).

Thanks, Sören from Germany

PS: Would be nice if replied via email, too ;-).


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