Re: emacs 22 on win XP, selection-coding-system, and copy & paste outside emacs

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 04.08.2006 um 12:17 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
>
>> If this happens again, please report that as a bug (to
>> emacs-devel@gnu.org).
>
> I think that what I call a bug is (was years back) meant as a feature
> (excerpt from mule-cmds.el):
>
>     ("de" "German" iso-8859-1)
>
> This is completely wrong since almost ten years! We have the € as
> currency, D-Mark is dead. Today eleven other countries have the €
> (plus Montenegro, I think):
> http://www.ecb.de/bc/intro/html/map.en.html.
>
> I sent a short bug report ...

I answered it.  "de" is and has always been iso-8859-1.  If you want
iso-8859-15, use "de@euro".

>> If you can afford it, I'd urge you to restore that setting and
>> report any problems you see.  There shouldn't be any, now that you
>> removed standard-display-european.
>
> No, I can't afford it! The time of 8 bit encodings has finished. My
> OS is UTF-8 based. And I hope to die before I'll have to use a 7 or
> 8 bit OS again. And if I wouldn't die naturally, I'll find some way!

If you want utf-8, use "de.UTF-8".  You can't blame Emacs for not
guessing that you specify the wrong locale to it.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum