>>>> "Erik" == Erik Moeller
>>>> <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> writes:
Erik> Uwe Brauer:
> Another important point. Recently I wrote a
comment in another
> discussion page (that one quite huge), again using an external
> editor. By accident it seems that I changed the coding of the
> page so, some non ASCII symbols changed.
Erik> This happens if you use an editor which is not capable of
Erik> editing UTF-8. You can set
Erik> Transcode UTF-8=true
I know, the problem is (X)emacs has no full UTF-8 support, however it
supports iso8859-1. I think my error was not to restrict that set to
the german symbols and thats why the error occurred.
Erik> in ee.ini under [Settings], but your editor will still mangle
Erik> characters that are not part of the iso8859-1
Erik> character-set. The best thing to do is to use a UTF-8 editor
Erik> (or, if you already do, set the encoding to UTF-8 when
Erik> editing wiki pages). I personally use Kate for KDE, which I
Erik> have found to be an excellent editor for both text and code.
Another option would be to use recode. I might try that.