From: patrol <patrol_boat@hotmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: character encoding confusion
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 06:24:53 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a9ce55f-08ba-420b-a0e3-3a7ba940258d@j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pqyy7nx4.fsf@castleamber.com
On Jul 7, 9:38 pm, John Bokma <j...@castleamber.com> wrote:
> Like Pascal wrote ASCII is 7 bit (0..127 decimal) and there are various
> extensions ("code pages"). It sounds to me you're running your program
> in a DOS box? If so the current code page, most likely 437 [1], of the DOS
> box shows a shaded box for 176.
>
> [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codepage_437
Thanks. That was helpful. I'm running Windows 7, and I found out that
it's using code page 850, which, like 437, maps degree to 248 and the
light shaded box to 176. I think I'm beginning to understand what's
going on. Emacs is indeed encoding the file in Latin-1, but when it
comes to the statement printf("%c", 248), it doesn't matter how the
file itself is encoded; what matters is how the computer interprets
this statement. And how it interprets this statement depends on the
codepage that the operating system is using. Thanks!
> John Bokma j3b
>
> Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/http://castleamber.com/- Perl & Python Development- Hide quoted text -
Sounds like fun!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-08 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-07 16:27 character encoding confusion patrol
2010-07-07 22:37 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-08 0:19 ` patrol
2010-07-08 1:15 ` Barry Margolin
2010-07-08 15:40 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-08 1:38 ` John Bokma
2010-07-08 13:24 ` patrol [this message]
2010-07-08 7:32 ` Tim X
2010-07-08 13:30 ` patrol
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