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garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs
From: |
ken |
Subject: |
garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs |
Date: |
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:41:42 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20111109) |
Just to be comprehensive I'll state at the outset that I'm using Linux
(CentOS 5.7), so this is the environment emacs is working in. From a
shell I get this:
$ set|grep -i lang
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Now I pull up a webpage with some French on it:
<http://www.wikilivres.info/wiki/Maurice_Merleau-Ponty>. Examining the
source code of this page, I see at the top:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
So this page is presented in UTF-8.
Firefox is also set to present pages in UTF-8: View -> Character
Encoding -> UTF-8
But when I copy and paste the text from "Francais" to "invisible, 1964)"
inclusive, many of the characters aren't rendered correctly; I get
"garbage" characters in their stead, e.g., the second-to-last line
appears something like this:
* L^[$(B!G^[$(C)+^[(Bil et l^[$(B!G^[(Besprit, Gallimard, 1960
Other lines are improperly rendered also.
I'd like to fix this. And if possible understand why this doesn't work,
so I might be able to diagnose these problems for myself.
BTW, I'm using GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d
scroll bars) of 2011-04-28 on builder10.centos.org
Yes, it's an older version, but it's the latest from the CentOS 5.7
distribution. (Blame Red Hat.)
Thanks for your help.
- garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs,
ken <=
- Re: garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/02/01
- Re: garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs, ken, 2012/02/01
- Re: garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/02/01
- Re: garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs, ken, 2012/02/02
- Re: garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/02/03
- different distro [was: Re: garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs], ken, 2012/02/06
- Re: different distro [was: Re: garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs], Peter Dyballa, 2012/02/06
Re: garbage chars when pasting French chars into emacs, Philipp Haselwarter, 2012/02/01