(I've spent a while googling this, and searched the list archives, because I was sure it would have happened to someone already. I get the feeling the answer is some incredibly obvious setting. My reasoning for posting to fedora-list rather than the Emacs mailing list is that the following seem like integration issues, but ICBW.) $ echo $LANG en_GB.UTF-8 I'm having two (connected?) problems with unicode characters and (GNU) Emacs. The first is loading emacs to visit a file: $emacs Kölsch& In gnome-terminal (or xterm) will visit the file 'KÃlsch', regardless of whether 'Kölsch' exists, or whether I'm on an ext3 fs or my -o utf8 mounted vfat fs. Once running emacs I have no difficulty opening/creating the file from C-x C-f, and it shows up correctly in emacs directory listing. 'Ã' could result from interpreting utf-8 encoded 'ö' as ISO-8859-1, I've also checked with one other character (ü I think) that the incorrect name is a latin-1 interpretation. I've tried to find some emacs setting for the encoding of command line arguments but haven't spotted it yet. The second problem is pasting from other applications, notably the gucharmap. Here most Latin characters seem to work alright, but accented Greek characters like alpha-tonos (U+03AC) do not. In Emacs I end up with an escaped sequence which displays as '^[%GÎ^[%@', but works properly if re-pasted into Ximian or OpenOffice. I've tried various settings X selection coding systems in Emacs (C-x RET x), including utf-8 and utf-16 be and le. Again, using the Greek keyboard layout via Gnome keyboard preferences, it's possible to enter this character into Emacs. M-x ucs-insert also works for any character I've tried. This is using GNU Emacs, GNOME, FC2 and the United Kingdom and Greek keyboard layouts. libgnome is 2.6.0-3. Any thoughts? Would the above work on XEmacs, and would I have to get rid of GNU Emacs to install it? (Add/remove applications isn't allowing me to select XEmacs or de-select Emacs, and before I go to the command line I wonder whether there's a rational explanation) -- imalone
