Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes: > Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> writes: > >> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 06:36:34PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 11/05/14 17:06, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>> > But is there a system-wide solution, just in case it starts >>> > happening in some other programme please? >>> >>> Try enabling utf (it's the "in" thing). >> >> IOW, what is the output of the 'locale' command? >> If there is no UTF component in the string, e.g. en_NZ.UTF-8 then issue >> 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' as root, and choose the UTF variant. > locale > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE=en_GB:en > LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" > I've just left-clicked on the large 'U' in the mode-line, and this is what it told me - --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- U -- utf-8-unix (alias: mule-utf-8-unix) UTF-8 (no signature (BOM)) Type: utf-8 (UTF-8: Emacs internal multibyte form) EOL type: LF This coding system encodes the following charsets: unicode --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- and that is the encoding of my troublesome document. Still doesn't explain why its going wrong though. Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, emacs 24.3.90.1
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