From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de: Coding problem with Euro sign] Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:19:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134804282 32656 80.91.229.2 (17 Dec 2005 07:24:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:24:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 17 08:24:39 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnWQ5-0004bh-HM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:23:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnWQo-0005uM-OP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:24:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnWMQ-0004gB-9K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:20:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnWMO-0004ep-2p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:20:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnWMM-0004e6-HL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:20:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.17] (helo=gandalf.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EnWOu-0006xh-OA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:22:41 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id HHD01492; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:19:08 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-73-173.inter.net.il [80.230.73.173]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.2-GA) with ESMTP id CFV88035 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 17 Dec 2005 09:19:07 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Kevin Rodgers In-reply-to: (message from Kevin Rodgers on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:59:02 -0700) 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:47928 Archived-At: > From: Kevin Rodgers > Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:59:02 -0700 > > Ah, I misunderstood the following passage from the MS-DOS and MULE info > node: > > ,---- > | MS-Windows provides its own codepages, which are different from the > | DOS codepages for the same locale. For example, DOS codepage 850 > | supports the same character set as Windows codepage 1252; DOS codepage > | 855 supports the same character set as Windows codepage 1251, etc. The > | MS-Windows version of Emacs uses the current codepage for display when > | invoked with the `-nw' option. > `---- > > So 850 and 1252 assign the same set of characters to different code > points? Yes. In the quoted paragraph, ``the same character set'' refers to the _underlying_ Emacs character set: Latin-1, Latin-2, etc. cpNNN are not character sets, they are encodings (a.k.a. coding systems) of the character sets they support. Also note that in the CVS version of Emacs, codepage.el is used only by the MS-DOS build; other builds, including the MS-Windows port, use code-pages.el, which is an entirely different implementation of the same functionality.