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