From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: M G Berberich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Euro Sign and Bitstream Vera Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:04:07 +0100 Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG Message-ID: <7h5u84-4aa.ln1@avaloon.forwiss.uni-passau.de> References: Reply-To: berberic@fmi.uni-passau.de NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169977555 27758 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2007 09:45:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:45:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 28 10:45:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HB6bZ-0004OC-9v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:45:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HB6bY-0005dC-Qi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:45:44 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.umbc.edu!news2.wam.umd.edu!elk.ncren.net!NNTP.WPI.EDU!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!avaloon.forwiss.uni-passau.de!news Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: infosun2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de 1169975748 17735 212.144.144.167 (28 Jan 2007 09:15:48 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.uni-stuttgart.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:15:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145107 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40712 Archived-At: On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Peter Dyballa 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 -- „Des is völlig wurscht, was heut beschlos- | M G Berberich sen wird: I bin sowieso dagegn!“ | berberic@fmi.uni-passau.de (SPD-Stadtrat Kurt Schindler; Regensburg) | www.fmi.uni-passau.de/~berberic