Re: Emacs charset in compilation (M-x compile)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 02.11.2007 um 12:49 schrieb gallows:

> foo.c: In function â\200\230mainâ\200\231:
> foo.c:5: error: â\200\230dummyâ\200\231 undeclared (first use in this
> function)
>
> My locale use UTF-8 charset. How could I resolve that?

Is the *compilation* buffer in UTF-8, too? Starting at the left with  
``-u:%*-  *compilation*´´?

What you see is the three bytes that make the UTF-8 representation of  
the typographical quotes ‘’, i.e. #xE2 #x80 #x98, #xE2 #x80 #x99.  
Could be a

        (prefer-coding-system    'utf-8)

is just missing in ~/.emacs ... or some customisation for compilation  
mode!

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  Pete

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