Re: [angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de: Coding problem with Euro sign]

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:02:48 -0700
> 
> OK, now I've actually tried that here in Emacs 21.4 running on
> Unix/Solaris under X.  First it complained that cp1252 is an invalid
> coding system, so I found the "MS-DOS and MULE" Info node referenced
> from the "Coding Systems" node and tried `M-x codepage-setup'.  It
> wouldn't take 1252, but a quick search in that node revealed that the
> right number is 850.

Emacs 21.x doesn't support cp1252, and cp850 is not an equivalent of
cp1252.

> So I tweaked the auto-coding-regexp-alist entry to use cp850 and
> revisited the file.  Now instead of displaying the u umlaut and A
> circumflex characters as such in my default font's character set
> (iso8859-1) and the euro as "\200", Emacs displays the u umlaut as
> superscript 3, A circumflex as "\302", and the euro as C cedilla.

cp850 doesn't support the Euro sign, that's why it displays it as
something else.  And the codepoints of other Latin characters are
different in cp850 than in iso-8859-1, so you see different glyphs.

> I assume those display problems are because I haven't configured an
> Emacs fontset for the cp850 coding system.

No, it's because the codepoints are different; see above.