I don't know whether this is an Emacs 21.3 bug, a Fedora Core 2 bug or (most likely) an error in my set-up. I've asked on comp.emacs, but received no replies.
I have a file (originally received as an e-mail) containing some Greek characters; I shall refer to these characters as (a). The file is coded in ISO-2022-JP. I have also added the same Greek characters by entering the Unicode values at the keyboard. Let's call these characters (b). If I run Emacs (version 21.3) under X, (a) display correctly, but (b) appear as hollow boxes. On the other hand, if I run Emacs, as I usually do, on a console (unicode enabled), (b) display correctly, and (a) appear as the "replacement character" 0xfffd - exactly the opposite behaviour to what happens under X. In either case, if I try to save the file as utf-8, Emacs protests that this will not work satisfactorily - specifically, it is the (a) characters that cause the problem. (Yet surely any characters should be savable in utf-8 - in any case, (a) and (b) are meant to be the same, so why aren't they?) If I save the file in emacs-mule format, a lower case 'alpha' appears as bytes [92 a6 c1] in case (a), and [9c f4 a7 b1] in case (b). Other characters show similar differences. I've spent weeks trying to solve this, without success. Can someone point me in the direction of an explanation and/or solution? David -- David Sumbler -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
