From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 22 on win XP, selection-coding-system, and copy & paste outside emacs Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:07:49 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <853bcchi7u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <1154597197.957129.171380@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154691640 9981 80.91.229.2 (4 Aug 2006 11:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:40:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 04 13:40:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8y2X-0007Wi-2b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:40:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8y2W-0005u4-J2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:40:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!multikabel.net!feed20.multikabel.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BulN1MK2GGT30YJQ2WuVkhKPFEw= Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 04 Aug 2006 13:07:56 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: a9def5ac.newsread2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=]U__>bcA5; 3c]9?QGJT=S2Q5U85hF6f; 4jW\KbG]kaM8AV6U:Z=fE=?I6ERIe@j4041_LiI6ENVa=3>5MOK` List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36473 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa 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. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum