cygwin åäö in emacs

I been bugging with this problem for some hours now. And I couldn't find the answer on google so I try it here.

The problem is that when I run emacs in cygwin in -nw mode characters like åäö doesn't come out normally. However it is perfectly normal when I type those character in mintty terminal. The answer that I found on google is that I should type M-x standard-display-european however emacs doesn't have that option. It only found standard-display-cyrillic-translit

starcorn

Posted 2011-01-07T09:43:37.090

Reputation: 2 136

What exactly does go wrong with those characters? Does it affect newly created files or existing files? – ak2 – 2011-01-07T10:43:24.153

And which Cygwin version are you using? (uname -r will tell you.) – ak2 – 2011-01-07T11:55:39.383

@ak - i'm using 1.7.x. Those character will show up as blocks. It will show as blocks when I use cat as well. – starcorn – 2011-01-07T12:32:23.597

Right. So are you looking at an existing file there? It probably means that that file is encoded in a legacy encoding such as ISO-8859-1 or CP1252, whereas Cygwin 1.7 uses UTF-8 (i.e. Unicode) by default. Can you type the special characters when creating a new file in emacs? – ak2 – 2011-01-07T12:55:13.303

@ak - I have tried both. When creating a new file with emacs (cygwin) and when I type in those characters it will show as blocks. However when I open the file with notepad (windows) it will be viewed as correct characters. – starcorn – 2011-01-07T13:10:24.640

2Hmm. Where are you running emacs? In mintty or in the default console? If the latter, try choosing a TrueType font such as Lucida Console in the console properties. – ak2 – 2011-01-07T13:18:57.050

@ak - i'm using mintty which I have set from beginning to use Consolas. Now I have also tried with using Lucida Console on mintty and the default console with the same result. It still print blocks in emacs, but åäö is viewed perfectly ok when typing on the console. However I get \303\245 as response from bash when I hit enter after å – starcorn – 2011-01-07T14:24:26.883

1That looks like inconsistent charset settings then. What are locale and character set on the Text page of mintty's options set to, and what are the values of the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG environment variables? Are you setting those variables in bash startup files? If so, don't, because the terminal won't get to know about it. – ak2 – 2011-01-07T16:00:10.077

It works fine for me. What does locale output? – Paused until further notice. – 2011-01-07T19:04:17.300

Yep, works fine for me too. Another question: are you actually using Cygwin emacs, and are you doing anything charset-related in emacs settings? – ak2 – 2011-01-07T21:38:03.113

when typing locale I get C.UTF-8 for every variable except for LC_ALL. I haven't set anything that I am aware of that will change the locale when I start up bash. I had some few lines in .inputrc before e.g. set meta-flag on but I have removed them now. – starcorn – 2011-01-07T22:25:52.403

@ak2 - yes I am using cygwin emacs. I installed it using the setup file downloaded from cygwin. – starcorn – 2011-01-07T22:31:17.097

works for me. cygwin 1.7.9, emacs 23.3.1, mintty 1.0.1 http://i.imgur.com/sCmS9.png

– serbaut – 2011-10-19T10:20:31.533

cygwin åäö in emacs

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