Hello!

In my Emacs This is GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i586-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0)
from Suse 10.3 german letters apear e.g. as Mär instead of Mär.
How can I fix this?

Regards, Astrid

Astrid Kuhr writes:

Clean up your .emacs file by removing anything related to language
environments and encodings. In particular stuff like
standard-display-european or such.

David Kastrup gnu.org> wrote:

(I haven't received the original message at this time.)

Note that there are multiple possible representations of the letter ä.
The problem here is that the file has been saved as UTF-8, but is
interpreted as Latin-1.

Check if your OS is configured to use UTF-8. You can do that by typing
"locale" into a terminal, it should say something like:

LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"

regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

Hello!

Thanx for your help.
Now it works.

Regards, Astrid

Astrid Kuhr wrote:

Start by telling us what is displayed in the *Help* buffer when you type
`C-h v major-mode' and then `C-h C'.