Re: Problems inserting accentuated dates

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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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 :)

> 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?
- you are using X on some operating system (e.g. Gnu/Linux,
  some BSD)?
- 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 :)

Cheers
-- 
t

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