From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fredrik Staxeng Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: iso-latin coding Date: 06 Oct 2002 11:48:40 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <1md6qn28zr.fsf@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033897919 23214 127.0.0.1 (6 Oct 2002 09:51:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 09:51:59 +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 17y84s-00062I-00 for ; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 11:51:58 +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 17y847-00036B-00; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 05:51:11 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: news.update.uu.se Original-X-Trace: puffinus.its.uu.se 1033897061 news.update.uu.se (6 Oct 2002 11:37:41 +0100) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.algonet.se!newsfeed1.telenordia.se!algonet!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!puffinus.its.uu.se Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105761 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:2307 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2307 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > > From: Raimund.Kohl@freenet.de > > Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 23:08:54 +0000 (GMT) > > > > I wonder where I can find some informations about the differences of all > > those iso-latin-soandso ... so I can come up with a reasonable decision > > which one to choose. I use a US keuyboard on a laptop but am to print 99% > > in german language. So how can I tell emacs to allways use the proper > > (which one?) coding when asked to save a file? > > "M-x set-language-environment RET German RET" should set up the > appropriate defaults for you. The web page http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html contains some information on the different iso-8859:s, if you would like the details. It's really not complicated, and it points out a number of design features of the characters sets that it would be useful if Emacs knew. -- Fredrik Stax\"ang | rot13: sfgk@hcqngr.hh.fr