Re: problems displaying german "umlaute"

[tomas]

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On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:05:44PM +0200, Rainer Stengele wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> sorry this is surely a standard problem but I cannot find a fast solution.

[...]

> The problem is that the "umlauts" shown in the windows emacs without 
> problems are shown as code under linux.
>
> I am using the exact same configuration (versioned by subversion), .emacs 
> etc.
>
> So under windows I see:
>
> Hüpfreduzierspiel rekursiv lösen                                              
>
> under linux I see:                            
>
> H\303\274pfreduzierspiel rekursiv l\366sen                                    

This one looks a bit strange to me (the u-umlaut being encoded by two
"numbers", the o-umlaut by one).

Anyway, it seems that Emacs (under GNU/Linux) is trying to interpret the
text in a wrong encoding. You can find out what coding system Emacs is
using at the moment with the key sequence "C-h C" -- you might want to
compare the answers under Windows and GNU/Linux.

Also: what does this file look like if you pass it through "hexdump -C"?

HTH
- -- tomás
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