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Aquaplanet
Aquaplanet

Reputation: 583

Emacs Windows org-mode encoding

I have an org-mode file for todos, and I have renamed the todo bullets to "Att göra" (TODO in swedish). However org-mode (in Windows, see exact version below) think it is "Att göra" (pressing M-S-RET). I can see åäö correct, but "Att göra" is not intepreted as a TODO item. I can also see in the configuration files that it is spelled "Att göra", still org-mode think it is "Att göra".

I have tried to save the configuration files and my org-mode file in UTF-8 (C-x RET f utf-8 RET). I have the following in my Emacs configuration:

;; Prefer utf-8
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
(setq coding-system-for-read 'utf-8)
(setq coding-system-for-write 'utf-8)

(custom-set-variables
 ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(inhibit-startup-screen t)
 '(keyboard-coding-system (quote utf-8))
 '(selection-coding-system (quote utf-8)))

This happens only in Emacs for Windows (I think this is the version number):

GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN

It works in Mac, Cygwin (however I have trouble with M-S-RET as the terminal doesn't transfer that sequence right, despite that I have disabled the Alt-Enter shortcut to go fullscreen), Linux etc. It is only in Emacs Windows standalone client.

If you have any idea why this is, I would be very greateful for your suggestions.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2836

Answers (1)

Aquaplanet
Aquaplanet

Reputation: 583

I want to leave this question answered.

Brady told med to add

(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "" 'utf-8-unix)

to my Emacs file and it works! No idea what it really does.

Upvotes: 3

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