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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__


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-06 10:12 UTC|newest]

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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