Re: emacs cyrillic

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 04.11.2006 um 17:38 schrieb Martin Ivanov:

> Hello!
>
> I am running Slackware Linux 11.0 with   kernel 2.6.18 and Gnu  
> Emacs 21.4a.
> I set emacs to be able to write cyrillic using the bulgarian.el file:
> http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~ogi/bulgarian.el

IMO this file is too old for a modern Emacs.

> My problem is, what should I do so that when I open a file with  
> cyrillic letters, after having saved it, it is displayed correctly.  
> I tried saving with a variety of encodins, but in vain.

Instead set an environment variable LANG or LC_CTYPE with a locale  
value your OS provides. I have for the purpose to use Unicode set it  
to de_DE.UTF-8, you need something Bulgarian + an adequate encoding,  
bg_BG.CP1251 or bg_BG.ISO8859-5? bg_BG.UTF-8 might be also a useful  
value. GNU Emacs learns from this environment variable and sets a few  
things automatically right. You can direct GNU Emacs by setting for  
example (there are more!):

        (set-default-coding-systems             'value)
        (setq file-name-coding-system           'value)
        (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'value)
        (set-keyboard-coding-system             'value)
        (set-terminal-coding-system             'value)
        (set-clipboard-coding-system            'value)
        (set-selection-coding-system            'value)
        (prefer-coding-system                   'iso-8859-5)    ; for example


> Besides, I want to enable spell-check for bulgarian, but I do not  
> know how. I have installed ispell-bg and in /usr/lib/ispell I have  
> the files bulgarian.hash and bulgarian.aff, but emacs does not seem  
> to see them.

To check what ispell sees, first check whether GNU Emacs is really  
set to use ispell! Some time ago a decision was made to substitute  
ispell with aspell. You can correct this fault:

        (setq ispell-program-name "ispell")

You can make this corrective setting active when eval the expression  
in *scratch* buffer. Now select from the Tools menu "Spell Checking"  
and then "Change Dictionary..." Now press TAB in mini-buffer. Voilà,  
there they are!

For flexibility I have set:

     (setq ispell-dictionary "german8")
     (if (string= "aspell" ispell-program-name)
        (progn
;         (setq ispell-extra-args "--norm-form=comp --norm-required -- 
run-together")?
;         (setq ispell-dictionary "en_GB-ise-w_accents")
          (set-default 'ispell-local-dictionary ispell-dictionary)
          (add-hook 'TeX-language-en-hook
                    (function (lambda () (ispell-change-dictionary "british"))))
          (add-hook 'TeX-language-de-hook
		    (function (lambda () (ispell-change-dictionary ispell- 
dictionary))))
          (message "Alles für «a»spell")
        )
        (setq ispell-dictionary "german8")
        (add-hook 'TeX-language-en-hook
                  (function (lambda () (ispell-change-dictionary "british"))))
        (add-hook 'TeX-language-de-hook
                  (function (lambda () (ispell-change-dictionary "deutsch8"))))
        (message "Alles für »i«spell")
      )
      (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook
                (function (lambda () (setq ispell-extra-args '("-t")))))


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  Pete

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