Thanks again, monsieur Monnier. I posted a note about my problem to gnu.emacs.bug. As a forlorn hope, I changed my encoding of .emacs from emacs-mule to utf-8 but it didn't make any difference. A fresh latin-4 character is still different from the same one after it has been saved and revisited. Although I downloaded the entire suite of cygwin packages (including cvs and stunnel) I know how to use only the shell tools (grep, sed, sort, etc) but these things aren't unicode aware and I couldn't conveniently input strange characters from the command line anyway (if for instance I wanted make changes with sed by looking at the emacs buffer in one window and the command line in a Dos Window.
Ed. "Stefan Monnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > (unify-8859-on-decoding-mode 1) > >> > >> Good. > >> > >> > '(unify-8859-on-encoding-mode t nil (ucs-tables)) > >> > >> Good as well. Except that the two do the same thing redundantly, so > > it's > >> better to get rid of one of them. I.e. if you like to configure your > > system > >> with Custom, then keep the second, else keep the first. > > > They shouldn't do the same thing since one is for decoding and the other > > for encoding. > > Oops, sorry, I wasn't careful enough. > > > Anyway I think I'll stick with Custom since it's probably the less error > > prone method. Apparently unify on encoding is safe but the other one can > > cause information loss. > > Indeed, but only in "unusual" situations (e.g. if you use encodings like > iso-2022). And in your case, unification on decoding is exactly what you > need (provided you're not bumping into a bug that prevents it from doing > its job, of course). > > > I am using the NT build and am not comfortable compiling from source. I > > have cygwin running under MS win but have never tried to build anything > > with gcc. > > I think cygwin has a precompiled cygwin version of the CVS code. > > > Stefan _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
