Re: searching for non ascii characters

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 03.08.2005 um 15:28 schrieb rahed@cwazy.co.uk:

>   character: š (01210241, 331937, 0x510a1)
>     charset: mule-unicode-0100-24ff (Unicode characters of the range 
> U+0100..U+24FF.)
>  code point: 33 33
>      syntax: word
>    category: l:Latin
> buffer code: 0x9C 0xF4 0xA1 0xA1
>   file code: B9 (encoded by coding system iso-latin-2-unix)
>        font: -outline-Courier 
> New-normal-r-normal-normal-13-97-96-96-c-80-iso10646-1

My own test file with ISO 8859-2 encoding has this in GNU Emacs 23:

        character: š (0541, 353, 0x161)
preferred charset: iso-8859-2 (ISO/IEC 8859/2)
       code point: 0xB9
           syntax: w    which means: word
         category: j:Japanese   l:Latin
      buffer code: 0xC5 0xA1
        file code: 0xB9 (encoded by coding system iso-latin-2-unix)
          display: by this font (glyph code)
     
-B&H-LucidaTypewriter-Medium-R-Normal-Sans-10-100-75-75-M-60-ISO10646-1 
(0x161)

and this in GNU Emacs 22 and 21.3:

  character: š (04471, 2361, 0x939, U+0161)
    charset: [latin-iso8859-2]
	     (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 2 (ISO/IEC 8859-2): 
ISO-IR-101.)
 code point: [57]
     syntax: w  which means: word
   category: l:Latin
buffer code: 0x82 0xB9
  file code: 0xB9 (encoded by coding system iso-latin-2-unix)
    display: by this font (glyph code)
     
-B&H-LucidaTypewriter-Medium-R-Normal-Sans-10-100-75-75-M-60-ISO8859-2 
(0xB9)

Both use the right charset and encoding. If you close and open again 
that file and it has that '-*- coding: iso-8859-2; -*-' in its header, 
among the first six or nine lines, Emacs should switch to that coding 
-- except you have at the file's end a block of local or file variables 
that say something different. Or it has a fixation to a specific 
coding-system. Did you launch your Emacs after changing .emacs? Can you 
check the variable's state (C-h v on this variable in .emacs in newly 
launched Emacs)? If it's something different than set then you either 
have this statement not executed or it exists more than once and gets 
reset some time after this line ... What does your file's tail look 
like?

The last thing I think of is the use of fontsets instead of fonts. What 
is your status?

Your file has at LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON's position the correct 
byte, 0xB9. So it is presumingly still correctly encoded. To see it in 
ISO/IEC 8859-2 you can revert-buffer-with-coding-system, C-x RET r 
CODING-SYSTEM. Use M-x list-coding-systems to see what your system has.

--
Greetings

  Pete

Windows, c'est un peu comme le beaujolais nouveau: à chaque nouvelle 
cuvée on sait que ce sera dégueulasse, mais on en prend quand même, par 
masochisme.