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

[Uwe Brauer]

>>>>> "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 It looks somehow outdated.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. 


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