emacs 21.4, Chinese and utf-8

Hi,

I am a grammar developer and I started to work on Chinese. We use a 
development system that needs utf-8 input. I managed to set up 
everything for emacs 21.3. All I had to say was:

(setq default-input-method \"chinese-py\")
(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)

And storing the files with Chinese characters in utf-8 and telling emacs 
about it with the line:

% -*- coding:utf-8 mode:trale-prolog-*-

was sufficient.

I put together a CD rom that is based on Knoppix, which is a debian 
distribution. Debian uses emacs 21.4 and all I found out does not work 
any longer:

I can set the input-method to chinese-py by hand and type chinese 
characters, but I cannot save them in utf-8. I can set this option for 
saving the buffer, but if I try to safe the file emacs asks again and 
utf-8 is not offered as an option.

Do you have any ideas what I could do about this?

Thanks and best wishes


	Stefan


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