From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: \225 and so on
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:16:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2427-Tue08Apr2003061641+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3smsugsjj.fsf@cicero.benny.turtle-trading.net> (message from Benjamin Riefenstahl on 07 Apr 2003 18:51:12 +0200)
> From: Benjamin Riefenstahl <Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de>
> Date: 07 Apr 2003 18:51:12 +0200
>
> > I often get files that are basically plain ASCII but have a few of
> > Microsoft's special characters such as \222 and \225.
>
> That's almost always cp1252, often mislabeled as iso-8859-1 or
> us-ascii, or even unlabeled. I use these settings in GNUS to cope:
>
> (setq gnus-newsgroup-ignored-charsets
> '(unknown-8bit x-unknown us-ascii iso-8859-1))
> (setq gnus-default-charset 'cp1252)
>
> I.e. I disable using the MIME parameters for us-ascii and iso-8859-1
> and set the default to cp1252 instead. This has worked fine so far
> for me.
I don't think this will help Richard, as he doesn't use Gnus.
> cp1252 is in lisp/international/code-pages.el in CVS Emacs.
Doesn't that map those characters into mule-unicode-* charsets?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-08 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-04 22:24 \225 and so on Richard Stallman
2003-04-07 15:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-04-08 2:30 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-08 4:47 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-08 11:39 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-09 1:59 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-09 5:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-04-09 2:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-09 2:40 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-09 10:18 ` Alex Schroeder
2003-04-09 11:05 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-04-10 6:22 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-07 16:51 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-04-08 2:31 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-08 4:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-04-08 13:07 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-04-09 5:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-04-08 4:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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