the evil iso-accents-mode: babel does not work

[Andreas Roehler]

Uwe Brauer wrote:
>>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler at online.de> writes:
> 
>    > Uwe Brauer wrote:
> 
>    > do you really need iso-accents-mode?
> 
> 
> Well I found it less hm flashy than quail sort of more reliable, but for
> example I don't know how to enhance it including  œ.
> 
>    > It looks somehow outdated.
> 
>    > With buffer example code
> 
>    > ,----
>    > |  % Local Variables:
>    > |  % buffer-file-coding-system: iso-8859-15
>    > |  % End:
>    > |
>    > | how to save œ other than utf8
>    > `----
> 
>    > it works for me with GNU and XEmacs alike. Always fine after
>    > reopening. Not so, if the local vars part is missing.
> 
>    > Thats with
> 
>    > GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i586-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
>    > 2.12.0) of 2007-11-24 on dede
> 
>    > XEmacs 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" (+CVS-20070806) [Lucid]
>    > (i386-suse-linux, Mule) of Sun Sep 23 2007 on verdi
> 
> That is NOT my experience,  I had to have  add
> 
> # -*-coding: iso-8859-15;-*-
> 
> At the beginning of the buffer.
> 
> Using GNU emacs 23 and Xemacs 21.4.21 Mule
> 
> Anyhow this problem seems to me minor, I much more concerned about the
> babel problem, that is: somehow, in modes other than fundamental the
> coding gets screwed up.
> 
> 
> 
>    > So maybe it's done with updating?
> 
>    > If not, what Steve explained indicates some limitation.
> 
>    > Sure there are several ways out. Emacs can do better.
> 
> 
> 
>    > But let's install some recent XEmacs first, otherwise we are
>    > in danger of wasting our time.
> Well another problem with 21.5 is it is not part of any Debian (Ubuntu) based
> distribution as far as I know. 
> 
Lets go on here.

Probably best to ask which experience with 21.5 and Ubuntu exists. I'm sure people use it.

Could you build it yourself with configure and make, should no deb-archive exist?

> 
> Concerning latin-unity, one problem was the saving to utf8. 
> Again having put that coding string at the beginning of the buffer
> solved the writing/reading problem.
> 
> 
> Uwe 
> 
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