Re: semigraphic characters: how to display?

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Luca Ferrari wrote:

> I've already posted few messages about my problem, but I've not found yet the 
> solution, so I do it again. I've got a problem with semigraphics chars on 
> emacs. I want to use the chars of the chars set mule-unicode-2500-33ff, so
> I've rewrited my .emacs file to rebind some chars with the special keys 
> f1-f12. When I edit a new file, using those characters, all is displaied 
> right. When I save the file emacs asks me the coding system, I use utf-8 and 
> all is ok (i.e. when I reopen the file all the chars are displaied rightly).
> Instead if I try to open a file, with semigraphics chars, edited with 'dwp' 
> (an editor wordstar compatible) I can't display rightly the semigraphics 
> chars.

Does it help to say

  (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

in your .emacs?