Re: emacs, umlauts, x-windows text mark and paste

[erasurehead]

Hello Harald and Sergei,

thanks for your replies.

I've tried setting LC_ALL to german, C, de_DE, de_DE@euro, and 
en_US.UTF-8 and then starting emacs. I can tell this makes a difference 
because the symbol in the lower lefthand corner of emacs which indicates 
the default encoding changes appropriately (e.g. -1 for de_DE (-> 
iso-8859-1), and -u for en_US.UTF-8) However pasting in the german text 
still makes garbage.

Also, i tried running C-x RET f (set-buffer-file-coding-system) on the 
garbarged buffer and tried many different encodings (which one should I 
choose?), but it never changes the text in the buffer *one whit*! I 
would expect it to junk the entire screen if I pick chinese-big5-unix, 
but it doesn't seem to care, the buffer still looks the same. I had 
already tried this many times after reading all the mule garbage in the 
manual, and have never been able to get emacs to redisplay some buffer 
in a different encoding.
:-(

very frustrated,

josh buhl