Re: utf8 char display in buffer

[B. T. Raven]

Lewis Perin wrote:
> I've been following this thread closely because I have the original
> poster's problem, only the characters that give me trouble are some -
> not many, actually - Chinese characters, e.g. ni3, the normal second
> person pronoun.  And, as with the original poster, the troublesome
> characters, when copied and pasted to other applications from Emacs,
> display perfectly.
>
> "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes:
>
> > [...]
> >    (set-language-environment               'UTF-8)
> >          (set-default-coding-systems             'utf-8)
> >          (setq file-name-coding-system           'utf-8)
> >          (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
> >          (setq coding-system-for-write           'utf-8)
> >          (set-keyboard-coding-system             'utf-8)
> >          (set-terminal-coding-system          'utf-8)
> >          (set-clipboard-coding-system            'utf-8)
> >          (set-selection-coding-system            'utf-8)
> >          (prefer-coding-system                   'utf-8)
> >          (modify-coding-system-alist 'process
> > "[cC][mM][dD][pP][rR][oO][xX][yY]" 'utf-8-dos)
> >
> >
> > and try C-x ret c utf-8
> > C-x C-f
> >
> > to open the file.
>
> I tried this, but it didn't help.  Emacs 22.3 / Win32.

Even on Emacs 23 although I see the characters in the buffer, I can't 
save the following as utf-8:

nǐ hǎo 你 好
u+4f60 and u+597d

Or at least not so as to be readable with 22.3. Both versions are using 
Arial Unicode MS.

Why is that?


> /Lew
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