Re: unicode editing

[John Morgan <johnjosephmorgan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The variable default-enable-multibyte-characters was the problem.  I
just deleted the line where I had set it to t in my .emacs file and
I'm back to the behavior I had previously.

This behavior is not ideal.  The multibyte characters get read as hex
values when I move up or down lines with c-n or c-p, but not with  m-f
or m-b or c-f or c-b.  I was hoping this would have been improved in
the latest version of emacspeak.
Should I set the describe-char-unicodedata-file variable?
John



On 10/15/09, John Morgan <johnjosephmorgan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Robert,
> I've inserted the utf-8 related variables in my .emacs file and I
> still have the problem.  I wonder if it's an espeak problem?
> The weird thing is that I can't delete the multibyte characters, it's
> a nightmare, they're indestructible.
> I don't think espeak would cause this behavior.
> I'm running version 22 of emacs.
> John
> On 10/15/09, John Morgan <johnjosephmorgan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thanks Robert, I'm working with the .emacs settings you posted, I
>> don't have the problem fixed yet.  I'm not using the start up script,
>> I have a line
>> exec emacs -q -l /home/john/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el -l
>> /home/john/.emacs
>> in a shell script and I invoke it after loging in.
>>
>> Can you read multibyte characters with emacspeak and espeak?
>> For example, if you type m-x ucs-insert and enter the hex value 622,
>> does emacspeak read the character to you?
>>
>> I had set default-enable-multibyte-characters to t.
>> John
>>
>>
>> On 10/15/09, Robert D. Crawford <robdcraw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> John Morgan <johnjosephmorgan@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> I recently upgraded my emacspeak to version 30 and I'm having problems
>>>> editing files containing characters encoded in multibyte utf8.  I use
>>>> espeak.  When I move over multibyte characters emacspeak is silent.
>>>> When I move to a line containing even one multibyte utf8 encoded
>>>> character I get no speech for the entire line.  I also can't remove
>>>> the offending characters in an emacs buffer.  I guess this means
>>>> problems with my emacs, but I only noticed the problem after upgrading
>>>> emacspeak.  I don't notice any problems with 7-bit encoded characters.
>>>>  Do I have to set a variable in my .emacs to enable editing multibyte
>>>> text?
>>>
>>> I'm not sure this will help, but what is the value of
>>> default-enable-multibyte-characters?
>>>
>>> Also, you don't mention how you start emacspeak, but it used to be that
>>> the emacspeak script, which some people used to start emacs and
>>> emacspeak, contained the environment variable EMACS_UNIBYTE=1.  This
>>> might not be the case anymore.  I've not upgraded in a while so I cannot
>>> be sure.
>>>
>>> Here are the other settings I have in my .emacs file that pertain to
>>> utf-8:
>>>
>>> (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
>>> (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
>>> (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
>>> (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
>>> (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
>>>
>>> Set via Customize:
>>>
>>>  '(current-language-environment "UTF-8")
>>>
>>> Even if this does not fix the problem, perhaps it leads you in the right
>>> direction.
>>>
>>> rdc
>>> --
>>> Robert D. Crawford
>>> robdcraw@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> Virtue is a relative term.
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> John J Morgan
>>
>
>
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> Regards,
> John J Morgan
>


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John J Morgan

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