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Subject: Re: Automatically detecting the charset
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Michael Below <mbelow@antithese.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> a followup to Kai's message
> <84bs277szf.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>:
>
>> For keyboard input, it might help to say C-x RET k iso-8859-15 RET.
>> Then enter umlauts.  Do they show up in the proper encoding?
>
> No, that doesn't help. I am being offered iso-latin-9 as a default
> when I do that, but C-u C-x = still gives me "eight-bit-graphic".

Did you enter new umlauts and use C-u C-x = on them?

>> Try 
>>
>>    LANG=de_DE@euro emacs -q -no-site-file
>>
>> in bash.  Then open a file with umlauts into that Emacs.  Is that
>> okay?
>
> Hey, that works! Now characters are recognized as something like:
>
>   character: ö (07566, 3958, 0xf76)
>     charset: latin-iso8859-15
> 	     (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 9 (ISO/IEC 8859-15): ISO-IR-203)
>  code point: 118
>      syntax: word
>    category: l:Latin  
> buffer code: 0x8E 0xF6
>   file code: F6 (encoded by coding system iso-latin-9-unix)
>        font:
> 	     -monotype-courier new-medium-r-normal--17-128-95-95-m-100-iso8859-15
>
> That sounds much better!
> It also works if I leave out the -q.
> So it looks like the system init files are buggy somehow.
>
> I know these init files:
> ~ $ls /etc/emacs/site-start.d
> 00debian-vars.el  50dpkg-dev.el  50gettext.el    50mew.el
> 50bbdb.el         50erc.el       50mailcrypt.el  50user-de.el
> ~ $ls /etc/emacs21/site-start.d
> 00debian-vars.elc  49url.el  50psgml-init.el  50w3.el
>
> Should I try removing them and putting them back in one by one, or
> is there a more intelligent approach?

I'd look at 50user-de.el, first.  If that isn't it, try your approach.

Is there standard-display-european in 50user-de.el?  It could cause
the problem.
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