Re: latin-1 characters

[Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>]

<rb@panix.com> writes:

> Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>
>> rb <rb@panix.com> writes:
>
>> Maybe you have some charset related customizations in your .emacs.  Can
>> you reproduce the problem if you start Emacs as 
>> 
>>     emacs -q --no-site-file
>
> Thanks very much for your reply.
>
> I can start emacs with no site file, but I need my customizations to
> start gnus. In any case, I don't believe there are any special charset
> customizations

Are you using Emacs in unibyte mode?  What is your value of the option
`default-enable-multibyte-characters'?  If nil this is likely to be the
cause of your problem.

A lot of people turn on unibyte mode inadvertently with

  (standard-display-european 1)

-- don't do that, use

  (set-language-environment "Latin-1")

instead.