Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] 11.81; *output* buffer is set to UTF-8

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 06.11.2005 um 10:09 schrieb David Kastrup:

> The question is whether the _characters_ appearing in the buffer are
> what you would have expected.

There are few problems before answering this ...

I need a mathematical environment with ö or ä -- an ü would do it too, 
I presume. Or an ß instead of β? Well, I have no idea whether this 
nonsense is supported by TeX.

Then I need to make this environment produce an output. Would take some 
time to find a way ... At least it could keep me from reporting bugs.


I am no Emacs developer so I can be completely wrong in assuming that 
the coding-system, as indicated in the mode-line, can be connected to 
the way GNU Emacs displays a file's contents in that buffer. The 
problem is in the nature of mankind: if we don't find enough and good 
reason, we'll go on assuming that coding-system and the way we see 
glyphs characterized in a buffer belong together. I never found a 
difference in that ...


But, OK, I don't want to stick to the coding-system, I am very flexible 
and can re-write my bug report that the output buffer does not show ä 
or ö. It codes these two cryptically as \<some probably octal 
sequence>. This scheme makes the user know more about codings than is 
necessary.

Can you accept this as a description of a bug in AUCTeX?

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  Pete

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