Jim MacBaine wrote: > Short question: How do I edit UTF-8 encoded files with Emacs? Those > files contains German quotation marks, Umlauts and other interesting > things. I am using GNU Emacs right now and don't appear to me to be having any trouble editing UTF-8 encoded files. The only special configuration I have for emacs is the following in my ~/.emacs. (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) I do have many iso10646 fonts installed. Perhaps you are missing a font? Really I don't know what to suggest because if you have the fonts installed (as you seem to because it works for you with mutt and vim) and you have LANG set to a UTF-8 font (as you appear to have) and you have also set prefer-coding-system (as you also seem to have done) then it should work. At least I did nothing more that I can recall and all of that works for me. The best UTF-8 unicode font that I have found so far (personal preference) is: apt-get install xfonts-efont-unicode xfonts-efont-unicode-ib *Font: -efont-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1 XTerm*font: -efont-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1 XTerm*Font2: -efont-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 XTerm*Font3: -efont-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 XTerm*Font4: -efont-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 XTerm*Font5: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 XTerm*Font6: -efont-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 > Long explanation: I'm in the need to reply to windows-1251-encoded > emails and to keep all those special characters like the ellipses, > German quotation marks, etc intact. In fact I'm proof-reading texts > that other people write. I like to use mutt from Sarge for most of my > eMails, with Emacs as editor. That is the same as my system configuration. > The setup I have so far works quite good: I run mutt in an utf-8 > xterm, and set charset=utf8 in .muttrc. I have not needed to set the charset in mutt. I believe it picks this up automatically from the LANG variable setting. Bob
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