From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de: Coding problem with Euro sign] Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:35:29 +0100 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87acf1ib2m.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134760638 16942 80.91.229.2 (16 Dec 2005 19:17:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:17:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 16 20:17:15 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnL2r-0004pO-P5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:15:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnL3Z-0002D0-Hm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:15:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnGrO-0006le-Hm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:47:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnGoh-0005nX-Ko for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:44:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnD1W-0000ek-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:41:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1EnD3v-0005hi-4r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:43:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EnCzD-0003Fi-OC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:38:51 +0100 Original-Received: from e178026244.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.26.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:38:51 +0100 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178026244.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:38:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178026244.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:a7q4bWvqv9gChoMbFRuUSgtEfjI= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:47872 Archived-At: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:20:09 +0100 Ralf Angeli wrote: > [ windows-1252 problems ] > > I am not sure how common something like the case at hand is but it is > certainly not academic. And if one is working with different > operating systems or interchanging files with people working on > different operating systems the failure to detect the correct coding > could lead to people regarding Emacs as a truly inferior piece of > software. I can already hear them: "What? It displays the Euro sign > as \200? Even Notepad gets this right!" On these grounds it may > become a bit hard to convince people that Emacs is the one true > editor. I think all that has to be done is: if emacs "decides" to choose latin-1 as the coding and there are [\200-\237] chars then choose windows-1252 instead. Who has control chars in her text file anyway? David