On 2006-12-05 00:34:49 +0100, Claus Fischer wrote: > I converted my Debian etch system to an UTF-8 environment. > > Emacs in X: Works fine > xterm: Works find > Emacs in xterm: Trouble (e.g. within mutt) > > While characters are displayed correctly, both for files with UTF-8 > and with iso-8859-1 encoding (emacs detects that automatically), > the keyboard input of characters with diacritics does not work. > (I use an English keyboard and Compose-"-a for Umlaut-a).
Do they work in Mutt? And in the shell? And in cooked mode? > I have tried various combinations of the following settings > in my .emacs file, but to no avail: > > ; ;; My old stuff for ISO-8859-1 > ; (standard-display-european t) > ; (iso-accents-mode 1) > ; ;;CF 2006-12-01 (set-keyboard-coding-system 'iso-latin-1) > ; (setq iso-accents-language "german") ; special german only in later > versions > ; (or (assq 'iso-accents-mode minor-mode-map-alist) > ; (setq minor-mode-alist > ; (append minor-mode-alist > ; '((iso-accents-mode " ISO-Acc"))))) > > ; ;; New stuff from web pages > ; ;; Various combinations have been tried > ; (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8) > ; (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) > ; (set-keyboard-coding-system locale-coding-system) > ; (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8) > ; (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) > ; (prefer-coding-system locale-coding-system) > ; (when (not window-system) > ; (set-keyboard-coding-system locale-coding-system) > ; (set-terminal-coding-system locale-coding-system) > ; ) > ; (set-input-mode (car (current-input-mode)) (nth 1 (current-input-mode)) 1) In fact, under Debian, you shouldn't need anything. For instance, if I type "emacs -q blah" in a uxterm, the status bar says: -uuu:---F1 blah All L1 (Fundamental)--------------------- This is worth trying, in case the problem is due to some .emacs code. > $ locale > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE=en_AT:en_US:en_GB:en > LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE=C > 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" > LC_ALL= You should also give the output of "locale charmap", but I assume it will be UTF-8. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
