Re: unicode editing

["Robert D. Crawford" <robdcraw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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Robert D. Crawford                                     robdcraw@xxxxxxxxxxx

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