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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".

> 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?

Ciao
  Michael
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