From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Need contact to solve ntEmacs problems with accented characters Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 19:08:30 +0300 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <2110-Wed28Aug2002190830+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: <003701c24e8e$96dc55a0$7a01a8c0@gustus> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030550827 31528 127.0.0.1 (28 Aug 2002 16:07:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:07:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17k5LO-0008Bl-00 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:06:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17k5Mm-00085P-00; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:08:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17k5MO-0007zt-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17k5MG-0007zL-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:07:59 -0400 Original-Received: from diana.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.19]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17k5MF-0007zC-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Zaretsky ([80.230.2.40]) by diana.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.1.0.58-GA) with ESMTP id AJN31919; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 19:06:20 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: ryszard.kubiak@biu.com.pl X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-Reply-To: <003701c24e8e$96dc55a0$7a01a8c0@gustus> (ryszard.kubiak@biu.com.pl) Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:3340 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:3340 [Please don't remove the bug mailing list from the CC: header.] > From: "Ryszard Kubiak" > Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:29:44 +0200 > > The experiment with printing to a file succeded -- the coding of the > file happens to be cp1250-dos, as it should be. If this success means > that the printer uses a different coding then what that coding is? I don't know yet. What happens if you send the file produced like above to the printer _as_a_file, using some utility that can print a disk file? Does it print as you expect? > Why other text editors, such as the one in Delphi, do not have > problems with printing, if they work with files in cp1250, too? Do > these other editors know something about printing in Windows that I > do not know, for example, that printing needs Unicode? One problem could be the way Emacs sends output to the printer. What's your value of printer-name (the ``normal'' value, before you changed it to print to a disk file)? > The letter /l is shown a a little centered circle, /o (oacute) comes as > Greek \mu, /c (cacute) as i with an accent, /a (aogonek) as reversed > ?, and so on. Sounds like Windows is interpreting your text as if it were encoded in some DOS OEM codepage, not cp1250. > > > 2. Font selection in --unibyte mode does not work. Whatever font I > select, > > > using methods > > > described in the documentation and avrious FAQs, the accented characters > > > seem to come from latin-1. > > This is also very annoying. I cannot select a font for the accented letters > to be shown properly in unibyte mode. Sorry, I don't know enough about font handling on Windows. Why do you need to run Emacs in unibyte mode, anyway?