Re: emacs-cvs-unicode

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 24.09.2007 um 10:41 schrieb Thierry Volpiatto:

> I have installed emacs-cvs-23.0.0-r7 from gentoo.
> every things is working correctly except the french accentued
> characters. My configuration is the same that on emacs-cvs-23.0.50
> where everythings works perfectly.
> When i hit one of these keys (e with accents say...) i have first in
> mini-buffer the right char followed by a "-"
> If i hit a second time the same key, i have (in the current buffer  
> now)
> a chinese or japonese sign instead of my "e accent"!!!
> Do i have something else to modify to make emacs-unicode working
> with french accents ?

Did you try to launch Unicode Emacs 23.0.0 with the option -Q? This  
makes it run not using any of your pre-Unicode settings.

To find out what "code" any Emacs sees when a key is pressed, use C-h  
k <key press or mouse event>. You'll also "see" when input is  
finished, then the *Help* buffer will open or change its previous  
contents.

To make Unicode Emacs 23.0.0 a very useful tool don't use set- 
language-environment! Rather take care to set environment variable  
LC_CTYPE to something like fr_FR.UTF-8 and make sure that the value  
of file-name-coding-system and default-file-name-coding-system is the  
one your system actually uses. There is no unify-8859-on-decoding- 
mode or unify-8859-on-encoding-mode necessary. For me, on Mac OS X,  
LC_CTYPE and (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) do the most.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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