Re: Problems inserting accentuated dates

[Kepa <gnu.cognition199@slmails.com>]

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On 08/10/2024 6:33, tomas at tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 08:42:24PM +0000, Kepa wrote:
>> Hi, Ihor
>>
>> Sorry I don't know how mail lists work, so sometimes my answers don't go to the correct place.
> This seems to work fine :)
If I answer to the recived e-mail, it usually works. If try to answer 
from the mail archive, it usually doesn't work.
>
>> The cause was this line:
>> (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
>> But I don't know why, and I would like to know.
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2024-09/msg00313.html
> OK. Asking Emacs, it tells us about the variable `locale-coding-system':
>
>    locale-coding-system is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.
>
>    Its value is ‘utf-8-unix’
>
>    Coding system to use with system messages.
>    Potentially also used for decoding keyboard input on X Windows,
>    and is used for encoding standard output and error streams.
>
>    Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 21.1.
>
> Now my questions to you:
>
> - this \341 thing happens directly when you enter á?
No, I've never had problems entering anything.
> - you are using X on some operating system (e.g. Gnu/Linux,
>    some BSD)?
Windows OS
> - if yes: go to a terminal (XTerm), type in "locale" <ENTER>
>    and tell us what the output is.
>
> My guess is that your X (if you have one) is set up to trade in
> an unibyte encoding (most probably iso-8859-1 aka Latin-1) and
> you told Emacs to expect utf-8 (the iso-8859-1 encoding for "á"
> is one byte represented in octal as 341 and an illegal byte in
> an UTF-8 stream: Emacs is smart enough to have a way to keep those
> internally, and that is how it shows them).
>
> But alas, my guesses aren't always right :)
Probably it's that. Windows takes the dates from locale, or something...
>
> Cheers
Thanks!

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