Re: problems displaying german "umlaute"

[Andreas Röhler]

Rainer Stengele wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> sorry this is surely a standard problem but I cannot find a fast
> solution.
>
> I am using textfiles (actually org-mode text) both on windows emacs 23
> (emacsw32-20090226) and under different linux variants (kubuntu,
> sidux) some running emacs 22 and some emacs 23.
>
> The problem is that the "umlauts" shown in the windows emacs without
> problems are shown as code under linux.
>
> I am using the exact same configuration (versioned by subversion),
> .emacs etc.
>
> So under windows I see:
>
> Hüpfreduzierspiel rekursiv lösen                        
>
> under linux I see:               
>
> H\303\274pfreduzierspiel rekursiv l\366sen                    
>
> What can I do?
>
> Thank you for any hint!
>
>
> Rainer   
>
>
>
>

Here it happens only occassionaly when taking chunks from the internet.

Reported it years ago.

Solution for me is to copy the whole buffer into a new one, where the
display is
correct then. Save the new buffer, its gone.


HTH

Andreas