From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: getting out of raw-text encoding Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 21:40:33 +0300 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <6137-Sat10May2003214032+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <84wugy7mub.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052592273 22209 80.91.224.249 (10 May 2003 18:44:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 18:44:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 10 20:44:32 2003 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 19EZKi-0005m4-00 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 20:44:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19EZLu-0005DK-03 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 May 2003 14:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19EZL0-0004vT-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 May 2003 14:44:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19EZKf-0004Ei-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 May 2003 14:44:31 -0400 Original-Received: from frigg.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.16]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19EZKW-0003p0-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 May 2003 14:44:21 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretsky (cable-130-147.inter.net.il [213.8.130.147]) by frigg.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.2-GA) with ESMTP id CIN49249; Sat, 10 May 2003 21:44:14 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <84wugy7mub.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@gmx.net) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9542 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9542 > From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 19:06:36 +0200 > > (codepage-setup "1252") might have done something useful, but it seems > that my Emacs knows 1250 and 1251 but not 1252. Why? Because codepage 1252's target charset is latin-iso8859-1, and where cp1252 and latin-1 intersect, they are identical, while the few non-Latin-1 characters there cannot be expressed as latin-iso8859-1. I'd like to remind you that until now, cpNNN encodings could only express characters of a single charset. This makes support of Microsoft's abominations impossible. (The CVS version of Emacs fixes that in code-pages.el.) Therefore, it didn't make sense to introduce cp1252 into Emacs, as the most we could have done would be for it to be an alias for latin-1.