I've been following this thread closely because I have the original
poster's problem, only the characters that give me trouble are some -
not many, actually - Chinese characters, e.g. ni3, the normal second
person pronoun. And, as with the original poster, the troublesome
characters, when copied and pasted to other applications from Emacs,
display perfectly.
"B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes:
[...]
(set-language-environment 'UTF-8)
(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
(setq file-name-coding-system 'utf-8)
(setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
(setq coding-system-for-write 'utf-8)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
(modify-coding-system-alist 'process
"[cC][mM][dD][pP][rR][oO][xX][yY]" 'utf-8-dos)
and try C-x ret c utf-8
C-x C-f
to open the file.
I tried this, but it didn't help. Emacs 22.3 / Win32.