Re: input when running in a UTF-8 locale

[Trond Eivind Glomsrød]

eliz@is.elta.co.il (Eli Zaretskii) writes:

> On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Trond Eivind Glomsrod wrote:
> 
> > When running emacs in a utf-8 locale (en_US.UTF-8) and using an 
> > international
> > keyboard layout or input method (setxkbmap us_intl  or just use the compose 
> > key),
> > entering a non 7-bit characters doesn't work - you'll get the raw UTF-8 
> > sequence 
> > inserted into the buffer as emacs doesn't recognize it.
> 
> Does it help to read the entry in etc/PROBLEMS whose header line says 
> "Problems when using Emacs with UTF-8 locales"?

Yes, that helped. Added that to our default init files, execution
conditional on LANG ending in "UTF-8" - using such a locale is the
default for most languages in the current beta of RHL.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.