Subject: bug#7962: 23.2; capitalize letters ISO-8859-1 with diacritic signs in emacs 23.2.1

From: Emmanuel Bigler <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:34:31 +0100

Le 02/02/2011 20:53, Stefan Monnier a écrit :

> Hello from New France,
>
>> I have been using emacs for decades and in a previous version emacs 22
>> the function capitalize word used to work properly with the European
>> character set ISO-8859-1

> You have:
>
>    default enable-multibyte-characters: nil

> which is deprecated and means that Emacs should treat your files as
> containing bytes rather than chars, so it can't do a good job putting
> those bytes in upper or lower case since it doesn't know what they're
> meant to represent.

> I.e. please fix your .emacs so as not to set the default
> enable-multibyte-characters to nil.
>
>
>          Stefan
>

Thanks !

Using (toggle-enable-multibyte-characters nil) solves the problem but
brings in another issue, namely the compatibilityu of all my previous
documents written in unibyte ISO-8859-1. ... but this is another issue.

--
Emmanuel Bigler