From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: set-language-environment Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:02:03 +0200 Message-ID: <85bqr0hihg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <279CB791-0A55-4D57-B369-B6581DEE3AC8@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154689358 2553 80.91.229.2 (4 Aug 2006 11:02:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:02:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 04 13:02:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8xRg-000824-Bq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:02:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8xRg-0000zv-0W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:02:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G8xRV-0000zM-51 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:02:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G8xRT-0000zA-Py for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:02:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G8xRT-0000z7-LS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:02:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G8xV1-0005Mb-FY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:05:51 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1G8xRS-0005CL-VT; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:02:11 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 5B0D91C4CE1A; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 13:02:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Peter Dyballa In-Reply-To: <279CB791-0A55-4D57-B369-B6581DEE3AC8@Web.DE> (Peter Dyballa's message of "Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:45:57 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:58087 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Hello! > > Setting this value to German executes line #2170 in mule-cmds.el: > > ("de" "German" iso-8859-1) > > Since almost one decade we live in the Euro zone. Iso-8859-1 is > completely wrong, iso-8859-15 is the right choice in the 8 bit > encoding. I don't think so. "de" is iso-8859-1. "de@euro" is iso-8859-15. The problem is rather that we don't have the "@euro" correspondes in the file. > Look, here is a map of those countries that have the =A4 as their > local currency: http://www.ecb.de/bc/intro/html/map.en.html. In the > next years more will follow. Does not change the locale definitions magically. Here are the entries for "de" from /usr/share/i18/SUPPORTED on my system: de_AT.UTF-8 UTF-8 de_AT ISO-8859-1 de_AT@euro ISO-8859-15 de_BE.UTF-8 UTF-8 de_BE ISO-8859-1 de_BE@euro ISO-8859-15 de_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8 de_CH ISO-8859-1 de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 de_DE ISO-8859-1 de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15 de_LU.UTF-8 UTF-8 de_LU ISO-8859-1 de_LU@euro ISO-8859-15 --=20 David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum