[Bug-AUCTeX] Re: 11.81; *output* buffer is set to UTF-8

[Stefan Pofahl]

Hello David,


David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Ok my problem is, that I can not edit german tex-documents 
> > with the current xemacs, shiped with Debian (vers. Sarge).
> 
> There is no such thing as a "German TeX-document" from the view of an
> editor.
Ok, German like umlauts "ü", "ä", "ö", and tex-documents with
german language are "German TeX-documents", you can also say 
"german language TeX-documents with e.g. latin1-coding" and 
it would be nice if there is a chance the the LaTeX-mode would
look for the correct coding of the TeX-file.

> 
> > XEmacs writes the buffer in the wrong coding-system into
> > the file.
> 
> What do you call "wrong coding system"?
A coding system that destroys me input, e.g. a "ä" should be handled
like an "ä", and if emacs files, it is using the wrong coding-system.

> 
> > Is it possible, that the "emacs/xemacs/auctex" is looking for
> > the argument of e.g. "inputenc":
> > \usepackage[coding-system]{inputenc}
> >
> > and changes the file I/O coding-system in a propper way?
> 
> Emacs (the snapshot version that is to become Emacs 22) uses the
> function latexenc-find-file-coding-system in order to figure out the
> correct coding system to use for LaTeX files.
Is this a part of auctex of this new emacs or is it an emacs feature
for LaTeX-users?

> 
> In addition, the same Emacs does a pretty good job in figuring out the
> correct coding system when loading files it does not know about.
Thank you for the tip, perhaps I check it out.

> > Ok, my problem seem's to be not auctex related, so if I want to work
> > with xemacs together with auctex (for what reason ever), I have to
> > put my question to the xemacs-comunity.
> 
> Feel free to forward my comments there if you feel that I am biased
> with my advice.
> 

Yes, of course, it should be one of the most simple things, even  for
xemacs to handle normal "latin1-coded" tex-files in a proper way, 
especially if it calls itself XEmacs-mule ;-)

Best Regards,

Stefan