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Re: Unknown character encodings in .emacs
From: |
Nikolaj Schumacher |
Subject: |
Re: Unknown character encodings in .emacs |
Date: |
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:38:54 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (darwin) |
"Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'be been poking around, but don't have a clue where to start.
> I never did understand encoding
Well, that's a clue where to start, I suppose. :)
> ("a`" "á" nil 1)
Looks like the file has been written using UTF-8 and read using
Latin-1. Try adding:
(set-language-environment "UTF-8")
However, I believe this shouldn't be necessary if the system is
configured correctly. What OS do you use?
regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher