[OS X TeX] Mac-emacs and 8-bit chars

[Edward M. Roche]

The newest version of GNU Emacs for OS X is Emacs 21.1.30.3 
(powerpc-apple-darwin5.2.2). It has recently been posted to the Apple OS 
X download site. It comes with a multi-lingual environment which seems 
to have quite a few languages. It might be that you can solve the 
problem by simply using the newly-released version of Emacs, but I'm not 
sure.


On Thursday, September 19, 2002, at 04:02 PM, André Girard wrote:

> Hello
>
> This is not really a TeX question but since Mac-emacs has already been 
> discussed here, maybe someone can help me.
>
> I am using Mac-emacs v 1.4 on OSX 1.5. I have tried  to use 8-bit 
> characters but so far without success.
>
> Mac-emacs displays a file that already contains 8-bit codes with the 
> octal escape sequences, e.g., \'e shows up as \216. If I enter a 8-bit 
> character from the keyboard, either with the standard Mac dead key 
> technique or with the TeX backslash method, I get only a blank square. 
> Finally, the display of the Hello page is rather strange. All 8-bit 
> characters corresponding to european languages appear as white squares 
> but the Far East lines are all OK.
>
> I have tried the obvious places for information (info, emacs discussion 
> groups), so far without success. It looks as if mac-emacs does not have 
> access to the fonts required for the display but I don't know what 
> fonts it actually expects and where they are supposed to be.  The 
> list-fontset function produces
>
> Fontset: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-default
> Fontset: -etl-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-mac
>
> so it looks like it should work.
>
> Does anybody know how to get it to work or where I could get more 
> information?
>
> Any help  will be greatly appreciated.
>
> André Girard
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