Re: How do I get emacs to display accented characters?

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> On Sun Dec  1, Jay writes:

> When I use XEmacs, I have no problem.  When the buffer contains,
> e.g., "Rick's Caf� Am�ricain", XEmacs displays "Rick's
> Caf� Am�ricain".  Emacs, on the other hand, displays "Rick's
> Cafe Americain".  Unless I do (load-library "iso-ascii"), in which
> case it displays "Rick's Caf{'e} Am{'e}ricain".  Nothing I do has
> succeeding in getting Emacs to display "Rick's Caf�
> Am�ricain" like XEmacs does.

> These are the things that I have done, which have had no effect:
> (set-terminal-coding-system 'iso-latin-1-unix) (setq
> unibyte-display-via-language-environment t)
> (set-language-environment 'Latin-1)

Usually this sort of thing happens if there is *even one* character
that is not part of the latin-1 encoding.  For example, it happens to
me when saving certain web pages that use \240 as a space character.
Once I replace these extraneous codes, then when I visit the buffer
the accents are automatically displayed.  You shouldn't have to
change any of the buffer local variables.

John