From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-01-11T01:19:31+09:00
Subject: Re: language encoding

On Jan 10, 2007, at 08:04, J�rg Hagmann wrote:
> I have written a simple answer-question programme (to be used in  
> the terminal) for students and I need French and German characters  
> (�, � etc.):
> I've written it in Emacs, on a mac, English keyboard and operating  
> system. It worked.
> When I tried it on a Linux computer (English environment) it didn't.
> I then thought I figured it out: I chose utf-8 wherever possible in  
> Emacs (e.g. "set coding system for saving this buffer", without  
> understanding what exactly I was doing, I'm afraid) and by including
> $KCODE = 'UTF-8'
> require 'jcode'
> in my file (something I got from the "Ruby cookbook"). That worked  
> -- on the Linux box. But the file no longer showed the correct  
> characters on the Mac. And it also didn't on a Windows machine.

If this is a terminal program then on the mac ensure that the  
terminal character set encoding is set to UTF-8.  You can find this  
setting in the Display settings of the Window Settings dialog under  
the Terminal menu.

> As I was planning to distribute the programme to the students on  
> Monday, and as I'm sure it won't work on their mainly Windows boxes  
> running whatever language, I decided to ask for help here. You must  
> have understood from my question that any answer should be kept as  
> simple as possible...
> Thanks in advance, J�rg.
>
> Prof.Dr.med. J�rg Hagmann-Zanolari
> Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics
> DKBW, University of Basel
> Mattenstrasse 28
> CH-4058 Basel
> Switzerland
> Phone +41 (0)61 267 3565
>
>

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