Re: Customizing coding priority

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 18.01.2007 um 17:12 schrieb Sven Bretfeld:

> Anyway, what Peter and Tom remark sounds strange. There must be some
> difference in the umlauts of the two coding systems, at least for
> Emacs.

Yes, there is in GNU Emacs. The characters don't stand alone, they  
have some encoding attribute. Unicode Emacs 23.0.0 cancels this,  
finally.


'locale -a' should display which encodings your system knows. But  
this should not have any influence on GNU Emacs: it has its own ELisp  
files to handle these encodings. And internally all files are held in  
a common encoding, which is then presented to the user by the  
encoding used in this buffer.


Probably vm has some restrictions. GNU Emacs 22 won't solve the  
problem, GNU Emacs 23 might! (I simply gave up and switched to a  
different MUA.)

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  Pete

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