On Wed, Sep 20 2006, Andreas Roehler wrote: > Emacs -q > > When opening files written with previous Emacs > versions, several chars - German Umlaute and also `-'
This is an ASCII HYPHEN-MINUS (U+002D), probably you mean EN DASH (U+2013) or EM DASH (U+2014). > for example - are displayed as numbers, not as symbol. > > So `Straße' is shown as `Stra\337e' > > C-x = > > at point gives the correct result and also shows the > symbol: > > -> > Char: ß (223, #o337, #xdf, file #xDF) point=395 of 2660 (15%) column=13 (Would `C-u C-x =' (M-x describe-char RET) give more useful information in this case?) > C-h v buffer-file-coding-system > -> > ... Its value is raw-text-unix Didn't you say in de.comp.editoren (the thread following <news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) that you cannot reproduce this problem anymore? (I couldn't reproduce it with "LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 emacs -Q"[1]). Can you reproduce it starting from "emacs -Q"? Maybe it helps if you send us a small gzipped test file. [...] > value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8 > locale-coding-system: utf-8 > default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Bye, Reiner. [1] $ echo Straße > /tmp/strasse.txt $ LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 em -Q /tmp/strasse.txt See attached file:
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