tlug: Emacs 20.2 and Japanese encoding

[Craig Oda <craigoda@example.com>]

Hi,
I'm running FSF Emacs 20.2 with Canna and dl support compiled in.
I'm using the binary from Debian Hamm JP.

I am having a problem working with EUC files.  

I have my .emacs file as follows:

(set-terminal-coding-system 'euc-jp)

;; buffer file encoding system
(set-buffer-file-coding-system 'euc-jp)

;; This loads the canna library which is in the 'load-path'
;; if canna is not in the load path, you must set the path   
(load "canna")

;; The line below starts canna automatically.  If you  don't
;; want canna started automatically, comment it out.
(canna)


When I view a JIS file, the file is displayed properly.  When I
view a EUC file, the screen is bakemoji.  I'm verifying the encoding
with 

  kcc -c

For example, 

$ kcc -c /usr/doc/kon2/README 
/usr/doc/kon2/README:   EUC


However, when I try to open up the file, I can't read it.  I can read
the file fine with jed-ja. 
Reading and writing Japanese e-mail works fine with FSF Emacs.  I can also 
create and save Japanese files.  

I think the problem might be with setting the buffer-file-coding-system
properly.  I've tried euc-jp-unix and others.  

Does anyone have any recommendations?  

There is a variable called default-buffer-file-coding-system that I've
also been playing around with.  

I'm also curious as to why there are so many variables for the buffer-file-coding
system.  Some of the ones relevant to Japanese are listed below.  
This seems like something that is excessively confusing.  

emacs-mule			   emacs-mule-dos
emacs-mule-mac			   emacs-mule-unix
euc-japan			   euc-japan-1990
euc-japan-1990-dos		   euc-japan-1990-mac
euc-japan-1990-unix		   euc-japan-dos
euc-japan-mac			   euc-japan-unix
euc-jp				   euc-jp-dos
euc-jp-mac			   euc-jp-unix
iso-2022-cjk			   iso-2022-cjk-dos
iso-2022-cjk-mac		   iso-2022-cjk-unix
iso-2022-jp			   iso-2022-jp-1978-irv
iso-2022-jp-1978-irv-dos	   iso-2022-jp-1978-irv-mac
iso-2022-jp-1978-irv-unix	   iso-2022-jp-dos
iso-2022-jp-mac			   iso-2022-jp-unix
japanese-iso-7bit-1978-irv	   japanese-iso-7bit-1978-irv-dos
japanese-iso-7bit-1978-irv-mac	   japanese-iso-7bit-1978-irv-unix
japanese-iso-8bit		   japanese-iso-8bit-dos
japanese-iso-8bit-mac		   japanese-iso-8bit-unix
japanese-shift-jis		   japanese-shift-jis-dos
japanese-shift-jis-mac		   japanese-shift-jis-unix
junet				   junet-dos
junet-mac			   junet-unix
old-jis				   old-jis-dos
old-jis-mac			   old-jis-unix
shift_jis			   shift_jis-dos
shift_jis-mac			   shift_jis-unix
sjis				   sjis-dos
sjis-mac			   sjis-unix


Any hints?

Regards,
Craig









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