Re: problems displaying german "umlaute"

[Rainer Stengele]

Rainer Stengele schrieb:
> 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   

This is still coming up from time to time.
I could not find anything wrong in the "codings", as far as I understand 
anything of it.
In order to proceed I wanted to write a function to replace all the 
wrong characters.
I have this her and it does not work, although doing a "replace-string" 
is working perefctly in the buffer.
"\374" is of course a character, not a string.


Can anybody give me a hint please!


(defun replace-misthaufen ()
  "replaces im gesamten buffer:
\374  => ü
\337  => ß
\344  => ä
\366  => ö"
  (interactive
   (beginning-of-buffer)
   (while (search-forward " " nil t)
     (replace-match "ü" nil t))
   ; (beginning-of-buffer)
   (while (search-forward " " nil t)
     (replace-match "ß" nil t))
   ; (beginning-of-buffer)
   (while (search-forward " " nil t)
     (replace-match "ä" nil t))
   ; (beginning-of-buffer)
   (while (search-forward " " nil t)
     (replace-match "ö" nil t))
   ))


Rainer