Re: Extracting agenda information: what encoding?

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Dave Milter <davemilter@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Extracting agenda information: what encoding?
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:18:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7F44A486-71D8-497B-9E09-1F07D05755BD@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a382c6e0910111322t3feed4edif40c3b7185775a5b@mail.gmail.com>

Hi DAve,

I have little knowledge about coding systems myself.

Could you please let me know, what if the value of `buffer-file-coding- 
system' in an agenda buffer, when you create the agenda by hand?

Thanks.

- Carsten

On Oct 11, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Dave Milter wrote:

> I try this from manual(
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Extracting-agenda-information.html#Extracting-agenda-information) 
> :
>
> emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs -eval '(org-batch-agenda "a")'
>
> and get some garbage on place of not English letters,
>
> encoding guessing software tell me that it is
>  "Doubly-encoded to UTF-8 from ISO-8859-5", but I unable to recover
> text from it.
>
> I used Linux with utf-8 locale, I never faced with encoding problems
> in emacs (emacs 23), for example
> (message "some not English text") print right message to console
> if I call it using emacs -batch,
>
> so I have no guess, why org-mode convert my utf-8 text to some strange
> encoding, the same thing happened on another machine
> with emacs 22, utf-8 locale and completly empty ".emacs" (a couple of
> lines only).
>
> May I should set utf-8 somewhere in org-mode preferences?
>
>
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- Carsten