> I'm playing around with GNU Emacs 21.2.1 as it comes with Red Hat 8
> (emacs-21.2-18.rpm).
>
> Emacs automatically recognizes UTF-8 files and it is trivial to switch
> to a suitable *-iso10646-1 font to get it displayed properly. Very nice
> so far.
>
> However, I have big problems with entering non-ASCII characters.
> Whenever I press keys to which I have assigned with xmodmap non-ASCII
> keysyms such as
>
> adiaeresis, leftsinglequotemark, leftdoublequotemark, ...
>
> then Emacs inserts into the buffer a sequence of two or three characters
> that look like the UTF-8 byte sequences for the entered characters, but
> interpreted as ISO 8859-1 bytes. So pressing � causes ä to be inserted
> into the buffer. Also, cut&paste into an xterm in UTF-8 mode is broken.
> When I select the � in the buffer and paste it into UTF-8 xterm, I get
> it again expanded to ¤.
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
Stefan
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