Re: Euro Sign and Bitstream Vera

[M G Berberich <berberic@forwiss.uni-passau.de>]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> wrote:
>
> Am 27.01.2007 um 22:13 schrieb M G Berberich:
>
>> I have the problem, that my emacs (23.0.0.1) with
>> Bitstream-Vera-Sans-Mono-Font shows the Euro-sign ‘€’ as  
>> Currency-sign
>> ‘¤’… sometimes.
>
> You need to understand that the € is shown in ISO 8859-15 (ISO  
> Latin-9), ISO 8859-16 (ISO Latin-10), and UTF-8 encodings (maybe  
> there are also some more obscure). In the first two cases it has hex A 
> $, dec 164, oct 244. In UTF-8 it is at U+20AC.
>
> Look into the mode-line! In the right encodings it will start with  
> -0:, -r:, or -u:. 

It starts with ‘-U’, whitch means: 
utf-8 (UTF-8: Emacs internal multibyte form)

I have ‘(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)’ in my .emacs -file. Bevor
switching to UTF-8, I had iso-8859-15 coding and no problems with the
Euro-sign ‒ but no german quotation-marks.

	  MfG
	  bmg

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