From: David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de: Coding problem with Euro sign]
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:35:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87acf1ib2m.fsf@robotron.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dns53n$dk4$1@sea.gmane.org
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:20:09 +0100 Ralf Angeli wrote:
> [ windows-1252 problems ]
>
> I am not sure how common something like the case at hand is but it is
> certainly not academic. And if one is working with different
> operating systems or interchanging files with people working on
> different operating systems the failure to detect the correct coding
> could lead to people regarding Emacs as a truly inferior piece of
> software. I can already hear them: "What? It displays the Euro sign
> as \200? Even Notepad gets this right!" On these grounds it may
> become a bit hard to convince people that Emacs is the one true
> editor.
I think all that has to be done is: if emacs "decides" to choose
latin-1 as the coding and there are [\200-\237] chars then choose
windows-1252 instead. Who has control chars in her text file
anyway?
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-16 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-13 23:34 [angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de: Coding problem with Euro sign] Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-14 18:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-14 22:51 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-12-15 1:34 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-15 16:20 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-12-15 22:02 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-16 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-16 17:59 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-17 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-16 11:55 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-12-16 22:58 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-17 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-17 10:47 ` Reiner Steib
2006-01-10 12:38 ` windows-XXXX and cpXXXX Kenichi Handa
2006-01-10 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-11 11:35 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-11 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-12 1:25 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-12 4:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-12 8:29 ` Werner LEMBERG
2006-01-12 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-12 13:23 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-12 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-13 0:58 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-13 8:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-13 11:50 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-13 12:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-16 1:05 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-16 4:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-16 12:11 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-13 14:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-12-16 10:35 ` David Hansen [this message]
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