Re: [gentoo-user] emacs and asian languages

[David Sveningsson]

David Relson skrev:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:29:15 +0200
> David Sveningsson wrote:
>> This sounds like a font issue to me. Can you see the characters
>> correctly if you cat the files?
>
> Hi David,
>
> Using a Gnome terminal and the default character set "Current Local
> Ansi_X3.4-1968" all the asian characters are bad.  Using "Unicode
> (UTF-8)" all look good.  So cat'ing _does_ work properly.
>
> On the plus side, being able to display correctly in (1) a Gnome
> terminal and (2) in Eclipse's source code window (which uses
> "Monospace") and (3) in a Claws-Mail window indicates that all needed
> fonts are available.
>
> On the minus side, e experiments to change emacs' mule encoding to
> ascii, chinese, and utf-8 don't seem to have any effect :-<
>
> And in an emacs *shell* window (with "mule...set UTF-8", the strings
> show up like:
>
>    String sh = "zh: \344\270\226\347\225u"\345\245\275";
>
> which interprets as the octal codes corresponding to UTF-8 char.
>
> David
>
>

I assume you are using xemacs, does it work if you're not using xemacs 
(use the -nw flag when launching)? I have never used mule myself as it 
is not needed with emacs 22. Since everything seems to work in your 
terminal I cannot see why it wouldn't work in emacs, but I'm not an expert.

Just to be sure, have you followed the steps in 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml?
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