Re: [Orgmode] Extracting agenda information: what encoding?

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Dave,

On Oct 12, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Dave Milter wrote:

> On 10/12/09, Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Dave Milter wrote:
> >
> > > On 10/12/09, Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > Hi DAve,
> > > >
> > > > I have little knowledge about coding systems myself.
> > > >
> > > > Could you please let me know, what if the value of `buffer-file-
> > > > coding-
> > > > system' in an agenda buffer, when you create the agenda by hand?
> > >
> > > I ran org-agenda in emacs, then press "a", and
> > > chose in menu "Describe coding system", and got:
> > >
> > > Coding system for saving this buffer:
> > > Not set locally, use the default.
> > > Default coding system (for new files):
> > > U -- utf-8-unix (alias: mule-utf-8-unix)
> >
> > Could you please do   `C-h v buffer-file-coding-system RET'
> > Just to be sure that we are talking about the same thing.
>
> buffer-file-coding-system is a variable defined in `C source code'.
> Its value is utf-8-unix
>
> > Also, could you try to run with the following in .emacs, to see
> > if the problem disappears?
> >
> >     (eval-after-load "org-agenda"
> >       '(defun org-encode-for-stdout (s) s))
>
> yes, this fix problem,
>
> may be you be so kind and explain magic?

Before printing to STDOUT, I process text in this way

(defun org-encode-for-stdout (string)
  (if (fboundp 'encode-coding-string)
      (encode-coding-string string buffer-file-coding-system)
    string))

This is done in the good intention that this is necessary
to produce the text in the correct encoding.  The code I sent
you in my last mail just replaces this function with a dummy
no-operation function, to skip this encoding step.  Apparently,
at least in your case, this does more harm than good, and frankly,
I am not sure it ever does anything good.  Maybe I implemented this
because a mule-Emacs produced bad output in this way.

I will change it to make the default behavior work for you, and then see
if anyone comes back and complains... :-)

So if you pull again from git, this should work without the snippet  
in .emacs.


- Carsten