Re: Customizing coding priority

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 18.01.2007 um 05:58 schrieb Tom Rauchenwald:

> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
>> Anyway, this mixing of latin-iso8859-1 and iso-8859-15 _is_, most
>> probably, your problem.  Assuming you use Emacs 21.x (is that  
>> right?),
>> Emacs is trying to do what it cannot do in v21.x: encode 8859-1 and
>> 8859-15 characters in the same message.  That is why you get
>> iso-2022-jp encoding.
>
> Are you sure about this? Both charsets are basically the same, for the
> german-speaking area the only difference i can think of is the
> addition of the euro-sign. So for a few umlauts it doesn't matter
> which charset is used.
>

The umlauts are the same. The differences are these:

;   oct   dec   hex    UCS2    UTF-8
;=====================================
¤ = 244 = 164 = A4 = U+00A4 =    C2 A4 : CURRENCY SIGN
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-----
€ = 244 = 164 = A4 = U+20AC = E2 82 AC : EURO SIGN

¦ = 246 = 166 = A6 = U+00A6 =    C2 A6 : BROKEN BAR
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-----
Š = 246 = 166 = A6 = U+0160 =    C5 A0 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH  
CARON

¨ = 250 = 168 = A8 = U+00A8 =    C2 A8 : DIAERESIS
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-----
š = 250 = 168 = A8 = U+0161 =    C5 A1 : LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON

´ = 264 = 180 = B4 = U+00B4 =    C2 B4 : ACUTE ACCENT
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-----
Ž = 264 = 180 = B4 = U+017D =    C5 BD : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH  
CARON

¸ = 270 = 184 = B8 = U+00B8 =    C2 B8 : CEDILLA
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-----
ž = 270 = 184 = B8 = U+017E =    C5 BE : LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON

¼ = 274 = 188 = BC = U+00BC =    C2 BC : VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
½ = 275 = 189 = BD = U+00BD =    C2 BD : VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
¾ = 276 = 190 = BE = U+00BE =    C2 BE : VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
-----
Π= 274 = 188 = BC = U+0152 =    C5 92 : LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
œ = 275 = 189 = BD = U+0153 =    C5 93 : LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
Ÿ = 276 = 190 = BE = U+0178 =    C5 B8 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH  
DIAERESIS



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