Re: automatically replacing, e.g., <DF>, by umlaut?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 21.04.2009 um 10:45 schrieb Ulrich Scholz:

> Hi, I often have the problem that when I copy and past some text from
> the console into Emacs, the umlauts are shown as sequence of
> characters <DF> or \317 (number may be wrong).

What about switching all utilities and the windowing system to the  
same encoding? With GNU Emacs 22.x or 23 UTF-8 is the right choice.  
LANG or LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE would be something like de_DE.UTF-8 and  
the fonts are best ISO 10646 encoded ...

The actual cause could be that the X server tells GNU Emacs that the  
X selection is of type UTF-8 – and it's not! It's probably ISO  
8859-1, so ß is encoded as one single byte with value 0xDF or \317.  
And since GNU Emacs gets told "the data is rather binary UTF-8" it  
does not need to convert it and inserts each byte unchanged.

The easier solution: make your console UTF-8 encoded.

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Mit friedvollen Grüßen

  Pete

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