Re: German umlaut problems after moving from Windows to Linux

[Jesper Harder]

Thomas Gehrlein <thomas.gehrlein@t-online.de> writes:

> I moved my home directory from a Windows to a Linux box.  Now I'm getting
> problems with umlauts in my .diary file.

You didn't explain what the actual problem is -- just that you get
different encodings for umlauts.  _Why_ is that a problem?

> 1) Which of the 2 "ä" is the "correct" one for a Linux system?

It shouln't matter.

> 2) How can I turn all "ä"s in .diary in "correct" äs?

Put a coding cookie in the file, e.g.

;-*- mode: Emacs-Lisp; coding: latin-1; -*-

if you want Latin-1.