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Wednesday, June 13. 2007

Emacs and UTF-8 Encoding

Want to get UTF-8 (unicode) to work on Emacs but don't know where to start?

Snarf this, and toss it in your .emacs. 

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; set up unicode
(prefer-coding-system       'utf-8)
(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
;; This from a japanese individual.  I hope it works.
(setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
;; From Emacs wiki
(setq x-select-request-type '(UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING))
;; MS Windows clipboard is UTF-16LE 
(set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-16le-dos)
The part about the clipboard-coding-system is essential for MS windows users who want to transfer content back and forth between windows apps and Emacs.

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Thank you, works fine for me in Debian inside gnome-terminal:
$ LC_ALL=cs_CZ.utf8 gnome-terminal -x emacs -nw FILE
Note also that this line (working with old linux distributions) should NOT be present in .emacs:
(standard-display-european t) ;; WRONG
JK
#1 JK (Link) on 2009-02-11 00:42 (Reply)

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