Re: emacs 23 - german characters - babel/rdictcc

[David Hansen]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:58:16 +0200 Hadron wrote:

> Hadron <hadronquark@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> I can now type german characters just fine in emacs 23.
>>
>> But when I invoke certain programs which talk to external processes such
>> as rdictcc, I get escaped characters back in the reply. e.g highlighting
>> "bridges" and invoking  rdictcc gives a buffer like:

That's probably `rdictcc's (whatever it is) fault.  You can let bind
`coding-system-for-read' and `coding-system-for-write' to latin-1 to
tell Emacs to expect latin-1 encoded text from the process.

David