Re: Compilation mode output is badly displayed

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 30.01.2008 um 17:42 schrieb Sven Joachim:

> > $ echo  $LC_CTYPE
> >
> >
> > So it seems the reason why GCC emits UTF-8 encoding.

I don't see it ...

> > That said why doesn't Emacs notice the UTF-8 environment too ? It  
> > could
> > switch automatically to UTF-8 in this case ?
>
> Normally it does, but you may have cruft in your init file that  
> sets up
> a non-UTF-8 environment.  Look there for calls to
> set-language-environment and standard-display-european.


LC_CTYPE, the kind or type of characters used, is the most important  
environment variable in this case. If it's not set, then everything  
can happen. To me set-language-environment looks like an obsolete  
call: does it change the language in which you are informed about a  
character's, variable's, function's, or symbol's value? Is *calendar*  
showing the legal holidays in your country in your language?

If UTF-8 is not correctly or sufficiently established, then it helps  
a bit to have a

        (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

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Greetings

  Pete

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