I have written a simple answer-question programme (to be used in the terminal) for students and I need French and German characters (à, ü etc.):
I've written it in Emacs, on a mac, English keyboard and operating system. It worked.
When I tried it on a Linux computer (English environment) it didn't.
I then thought I figured it out: I chose utf-8 wherever possible in Emacs (e.g. "set coding system for saving this buffer", without understanding what exactly I was doing, I'm afraid) and by including
$KCODE = 'UTF-8'
require 'jcode'
in my file (something I got from the "Ruby cookbook"). That worked -- on the Linux box. But the file no longer showed the correct characters on the Mac. And it also didn't on a Windows machine.
As I was planning to distribute the programme to the students on Monday, and as I'm sure it won't work on their mainly Windows boxes running whatever language, I decided to ask for help here. You must have understood from my question that any answer should be kept as simple as possible...
Thanks in advance, Jörg.
Prof.Dr.med. Jörg Hagmann-Zanolari
Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics
DKBW, University of Basel
Mattenstrasse 28
CH-4058 Basel
Switzerland
Phone +41 (0)61 267 3565
I have written a simple answer-question programme (to be used in the terminal) for students and I need French and German characters (à, ü etc.):
I've written it in Emacs, on a mac, English keyboard and operating system. It worked.
When I tried it on a Linux computer (English environment) it didn't.
I then thought I figured it out: I chose utf-8 wherever possible in Emacs (e.g. "set coding system for saving this buffer", without understanding what exactly I was doing, I'm afraid) and by including
$KCODE = 'UTF-8'
require 'jcode'
in my file (something I got from the "Ruby cookbook"). That worked -- on the Linux box. But the file no longer showed the correct characters on the Mac. And it also didn't on a Windows machine.
If this is a terminal program then on the mac ensure that the terminal character set encoding is set to UTF-8. You can find this setting in the Display settings of the Window Settings dialog under the Terminal menu.
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On Jan 10, 2007, at 08:04, Jörg Hagmann wrote:
As I was planning to distribute the programme to the students on Monday, and as I'm sure it won't work on their mainly Windows boxes running whatever language, I decided to ask for help here. You must have understood from my question that any answer should be kept as simple as possible...
Thanks in advance, Jörg.
Prof.Dr.med. Jörg Hagmann-Zanolari
Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics
DKBW, University of Basel
Mattenstrasse 28
CH-4058 Basel
Switzerland
Phone +41 (0)61 267 3565
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