Re: German letters?

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

> Astrid Kuhr <a_kuhr@web.de> writes:
>
>> In my Emacs This is GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i586-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+
>> Version 2.12.0) from Suse 10.3 german letters apear e.g. as Mär
>> instead of Mär.  How can I fix this?

(I haven't received the original message at this time.)

Note that there are multiple possible representations of the letter ä.
The problem here is that the file has been saved as UTF-8, but is
interpreted as Latin-1.

Check if your OS is configured to use UTF-8.  You can do that by typing
"locale" into a terminal, it should say something like:

LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher