Re: Emacs23 encoding

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 01:03:04PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > If I type the following word: "lêers" in my text it show up correctly
> > in the immediate buffer, but later (after a save of the buffer)
> > becomes  "lêers".
> 
> What is the value of the buffer-file-coding-system variable?

After my previous email I kept on trying different configurations and
it seems to be working now.  I really don't know what made the
difference in the end.

I actually forgot to search for "coding" using "apropos" and only made
use of the configuration menu's of emacs.

The value of buffer-file-coding-system is iso-latin-1-unix at the
moment.

> > I have tried several options setting the encoding to iso-8599-1 or
> > latin-1 but with limited success.
> >
> > So my question: What can I do to convince emacs23 to keep 'lêers'
> > 'lêers'?
> 
> Make sure you use the right input encoding.  Emacs deduces the
> coding-system from the "\usepackage[<encoding>]{inputenc}" directive of
> your file.  Do you have such a line in your file, and with which
> encoding?
I was already using "\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}" .

Regards
Johann
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