Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Slightly OT: Editor Encoding Issues

[Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

Holger Rauch writes:
 > Is there any way to use Emacs PSGML mode on both Unix and Win* WITHOUT
 > changing the encoding of the DocBook XML document when switching between
 > the two systems? (Usually, one either has to specify
 > 
 > encoding="iso-8859-1" or
 > encoding="windows-1250"
 > 
 > depending whether one is working on Unix or on Win*.)

why use these horrible encodings anyway? whats wrong with the default
utf-8, which emacs is well able to support?

 > I already asked on the PSGML users mailing list on how to make PSGML mode
 > Unicode aware but I got no replies.

look at the "tei-emacs" packaging of emacs, psgml etc on
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/TEI/Software/. In there are including patches
to psgml etc which read the XML file's encoding attribute properly,
and take appropriate action. You load a normal XML file with no
encoding, it defaults to utf-8 mode.

Sebastian