On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:34:29 +0100, Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu> wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:25:04 +0100, Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu> wrote: > > > > On the contrary, UTF-8 sets it fine ;-) as well as if M-x > > reset-language-environment, as expected ;) > > > > I've checked and had : > - current-language-environment "Latin-1" > - and default-input-method "latin-1-prefix" > in my customizations in .emacs. > > I've removed these, and it seems much better now. > > I don't remember why these we necessary initially... and hope I will be > able to live without these from now on. > Just for completeness, it seems that it's the specific Latin-1 setting of current-language-environment that messed with the rendering. If I don't customize it to Latin-1, the current-language-environment seems to be calculated to French (which sounds logical given my locale envs), and then it works. I assume that French means French with UTF-8 whereas Latin-1 means what it means ;) That's logical, but far from obvious until you've found the culprit. Closing the Debian bug then. Sorry for the bothering, and thanks for your help. /Merci et à bientôt/ (just to check once more ;) Best regards, -- Olivier BERGER http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France)