Re: default coding systems problem in Windows 10

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Problem solved, though I do not understand why.
I wasn't happy with the available fonts, downloaded, installed and selected
the 'DejaVu Sans Mono' font and I get no more questions about coding
systems.

Go figure...

Anyway, solved.

Guido

On 20 March 2016 at 11:49, Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com> wrote:

> My emacs running under Windows 10 exhibits a problem with default coding
> system. Following text is an example that occurs when starting emacs:
>
> --> These default coding systems were tried to encode text
> --> in the buffer ‘ *temp*’:
> -->   (iso-latin-1-dos (2145 . 8217) (2169 . 8217) (2185 . 8217) (2209
> -->   . 8217) (2226 . 8217) (2250 . 8217))
> --> However, each of them encountered characters it couldn’t encode:
> -->   iso-latin-1-dos cannot encode these: ’ ’ ’ ’ ’ ’
> -->
> --> Click on a character (or switch to this window by ‘C-x o’
> --> and select the characters by RET) to jump to the place it appears,
> --> where ‘C-u C-x =’ will give information about it.
> -->
> --> Select one of the safe coding systems listed below,
> --> or cancel the writing with C-g and edit the buffer
> -->    to remove or modify the problematic characters,
> --> or specify any other coding system (and risk losing
> -->    the problematic characters).
>
> I answer the mini-buffer prompt with 'utf-8' and it proceeds.
>
> I've been googling around, but can't find why, how or where I should
> tell it that utf-8 is my default coding system. Never had this problem
> with Emacs on OSX nor on various Linux distros. In fact, I'm using the
> same .emacs in an LXLE virtualbox (with some conditional path stuff, of
> course) and that emacs never complains nor hesitates about coding
> systems.
>
> The example above shows that we're even not talking about a physical
> file: the problem occurs with a *temp* buffer!
>
> Anny suggestion, any one?
>
> Version: GNU Emacs 25.0.92.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2016-03-03
> My W10 is an english one, with 'Dutch (Belgium)' for 'date, time and
> number formats'
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Guido
>
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