* Florian v. Savigny (lor...@fsavigny.de) [28.02.09 11:35]: > > > Dear Sebastian, > > > > there still is /etc/conf.d/consolefont that could mess up things > > The only variable that's set there is CONSOLEFONT="cp1250". I would > not understand how the font could have an influence on the characters > *produced* by the console, and it seems also difficult to explain why > the shell and Emacs, which of course use the same console font, behave > differently. (Under the shell, it looks fine while you type it, > i.e. you cannot tell that your u umlaut actually consists of two > bytes. But Emacs displays the lower-case umlauts followed by a space > (i.e. two characters, but not those that most of us are probably quite > familiar with, i.e. which you see when UTF-8 is displayed as if it > were ASCII), while for upper-case umlauts and the eszett complains > that e.g. "\204 is undefined".) > what does file say about the offending files? Emacs always uses the enconding of the file, where as an redirect uses the locale, iirc.
I assume you know the options->mule menu in emacs, there is a lot to help with encoding issues... > As to the locale, where can I look that up ... ? I seem to remember I > purposely use no locale (or "C", I think), but I don't remember where > I set that. > .bashrc > > Thanks very much! > > Florian > > Sebastian -- " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " Karl Marx s...@sti@N GÜNTHER mailto:sam...@guenther-roetgen.de
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