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Re: emacs 23 - german characters - babel/rdictcc


From: Hadron
Subject: Re: emacs 23 - german characters - babel/rdictcc
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:57:08 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux)

Hadron <hadronquark@googlemail.com> writes:

> Hadron <hadronquark@googlemail.com> writes:
>
>> David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:58:16 +0200 Hadron wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hadron <hadronquark@googlemail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I can now type german characters just fine in emacs 23.
>>>>>
>>>>> But when I invoke certain programs which talk to external processes such
>>>>> as rdictcc, I get escaped characters back in the reply. e.g highlighting
>>>>> "bridges" and invoking  rdictcc gives a buffer like:
>>>
>>> That's probably `rdictcc's (whatever it is) fault.  You can let bind
>>> `coding-system-for-read' and `coding-system-for-write' to latin-1 to
>>> tell Emacs to expect latin-1 encoded text from the process.
>>>
>>> David
>>
>> It works fine in emacs 22 for some reason.
>>
>
> The following made it work. I must admit to not having a clue why - the
> plethora of options for locales, coding, fonts etc is mind numbingly
> complex :)
>
> (When I say "why it worked", I never had this line before and it all just 
> worked in
> emacs 22 - so I guess it was picking up defaults from X or some such.).
>
> (set-locale-environment "de")

Sorry. It works with rdictcc, but not with Babel.el

If anyone could suggest a fix (babel.el 0.3 found here :
http://www.mail-archive.com/gnu-emacs-sources@gnu.org/msg00186.html ) i
would be grateful.


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