Hi, I find it's weird when i type AltGr+E with German keyboard in emacs23 
under Win32, the output sign is #x80, and it is displayed as \200.
Under Linux, it is #x20AC as expected.

Any ideas?

best regards,

Qichen

"M G Berberich" <berberic@forwiss.uni-passau.de> wrote in message 
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> Halle,
>
> I have the problem, that my emacs (23.0.0.1) with
> Bitstream-Vera-Sans-Mono-Font shows the Euro-sign ¡®€¡¯ as Currency-sign
> ¡®¡è¡¯¡­ sometimes. If I start the emacs with the UTF-8-demo-file from
> Markus Kuhn the ¡®€¡¯ is displayed O.K.
>
> I have set fontsets (shortend by ¡®¡­¡¯) as this:
>
> (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec
> "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-¡­-*-fontset-vera11,
>  latin:-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-¡­-*-iso10646-1,
>  mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-¡­-iso10646-1,
>  mule-unicode-2500-33ff:-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-¡­-iso10646-1,
>  mule-unicode-e000-ffff:-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-¡­-iso10646-1,
>  symbol:-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-¡­-iso10646-1,
>  symbol:-unknown-freemono-¡­-iso10646-1,
>  greek:-unknown-freemono-¡­-iso10646-1,
>  cyrillic:-monotype-andale mono-¡­-iso10646-1")
>
> BTW: I have defined symbol: two times, does this make sense?
>
> I added the output of ¡®C-u C-x =¡¯ below, the ¡°working¡±-case differns
> from the ¡°non-working¡±-case in the glyph tht is used to display the
> (same) char (#xBD / #x102) and in the property ¡®fontified¡¯.
>
> Anybody?
>
> MfG
> bmg
>
> C-u C-x = give this if the Euro-sign is not working
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>        character: ¡è (8364, #o20254, #x20ac)
> preferred charset: iso-8859-15 (ISO/IEC 8859/15)
>       code point: 0xA4
>           syntax: _ which means: symbol
>         category: c:Chinese h:Korean j:Japanese
>      buffer code: #xE2 #x82 #xAC
>        file code: #xE2 #x82 #xAC (encoded by coding system utf-8)
>          display: by this font (glyph code)
>     bitstream vera sans mono:pixelsize=11:foundry=bitstream:¡­
> weight=medium:slant=r:width=normal (#xBD)
>
> Character code properties: customize what to show
>  name: EURO SIGN
>  general-category: Sc (Symbol, Currency)
>  canonical-combining-class: 0 (Spacing, split, enclosing, reordrant,¡­
> and Tibetan subjoined)
>  bidi-class: ET (European Number Terminator)
>  mirrored: N
>
> There are text properties here:
>  auto-composed        t
>  fontified            t
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> and this if the Euro-sign is working
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>        character: € (8364, #o20254, #x20ac)
> preferred charset: iso-8859-15 (ISO/IEC 8859/15)
>       code point: 0xA4
>           syntax: _ which means: symbol
>         category: c:Chinese h:Korean j:Japanese
>      buffer code: #xE2 #x82 #xAC
>        file code: #xE2 #x82 #xAC (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
>          display: by this font (glyph code)
>     bitstream vera sans mono:pixelsize=11:foundry=bitstream:¡­
> weight=medium:slant=r:width=normal (#x102)
>
> Character code properties: customize what to show
>  name: EURO SIGN
>  general-category: Sc (Symbol, Currency)
>  canonical-combining-class: 0 (Spacing, split, enclosing, reordrant,¡­
> and Tibetan subjoined)
>  bidi-class: ET (European Number Terminator)
>  mirrored: N
>
> There are text properties here:
>  auto-composed        t
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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