From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to keep character encoding in text file...
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:12:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ciqmn55aj.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2491.1236332716.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
> Am 06.03.2009 um 09:21 schrieb Pascal J. Bourguignon:
>
>> Marko Myllymaki <firstname.lastname@iki.fi> writes:
>>> Therefore if I enter "baz" in latin1 buffer, everything is okay, but
>>> "foobar åäö" has some UTF-8 and it then forces buffer encoding to
>>> UTF-8...
>>
>> Perhaps because your keyboard doesn't send compound characters, but
>> unicode combination sequences? iso-8859-1 contains acute and grave
>> accents, but no umlaut.
>>
>
> You're wrong:
>
> Ä = 304 = 196 = C4 = U+00C4 = C3 84 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH
> DIAERESIS
I meant the character #x000A8 168 ¨ "DIAERESIS"
and indeed I was wrong, I searched umlaut, but it's called diaeresis.
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-05 11:17 How to keep character encoding in text file Marko Myllymaki
2009-03-05 13:33 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-03-06 7:54 ` Marko Myllymaki
2009-03-05 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2443.1236279043.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-03-06 7:39 ` Marko Myllymaki
2009-03-06 8:21 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-03-06 9:44 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-03-06 10:13 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.2491.1236332716.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-03-06 10:12 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2009-03-06 10:57 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.2504.1236337060.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-03-07 9:05 ` Marko Myllymaki
2009-03-06 10:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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