From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Piet van Oostrum Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: displaying the EUR-Sign in normal buffers Date: 07 Oct 2002 22:33:28 +0200 Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5lr8f6i3cp.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034023584 594 127.0.0.1 (7 Oct 2002 20:46:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 20:46:24 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17yeli-00009S-00 for ; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 22:46:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17yelY-00056z-00; Mon, 07 Oct 2002 16:46:12 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-han1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!uni-erlangen.de!elvis.franken.de!chico.franken.de!news.franken.de!news.nl.linux.org!humbolt.nl.linux.org!phil.uu.nl!ruu.nl!cs.uu.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: sunshine.cs.uu.nl Original-X-Trace: samos.cs.uu.nl 1034022809 25121 131.211.80.33 (7 Oct 2002 20:33:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@cs.uu.nl Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Oct 2002 20:33:29 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105794 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2340 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2340 >>>>> Klaus Berndl (KB) writes: KB> :-) Ok, i will try to be more precise: If a posting contains the EUR sign KB> (¤) then it is displayed automatically (means i have nothing to configure KB> in Gnus for this) correctly in the summary-buffer as well as in the KB> message- or article buffer. This is because in the header the charset is given as iso-8859-15 and (probably) the correct code for ¤ is used. KB> If for example i insert an EUR sign (¤) in Microsoft Word, copy it to the KB> clipboard and try to insert it into a normal Emacs-buffer (e.g. *scratch*) KB> then i get only \200. KB> Ok, after this my *current-language-environment* has value "Latin-9" which KB> seems to be correct but nevertheless i have no success with inserting an KB> EUR sign (¤), neither by pasting from the clipboard (still getting \200) KB> nor by hitting the key-combination (German keyboard: Alt Gr + e) which KB> inserts ¤ into a Word-document for example (in Emacs no reaction means KB> nothing is inserted). \200 is not a valid code in Latin-9 (iso-8859-15), but it is the code for ¤ in Windows. So you either have to use the Windows character encoding (I think it is character set 1252) or use the proper code for Latin-9 (0xA4). -- Piet van Oostrum URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP] Private email: P.van.Oostrum@hccnet.nl