From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oliver Scholz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: displaying the Eurosign at all Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:23:06 +0100 Message-ID: <87psy8onc5.fsf@ID-87814.user.uni-berlin.de> References: <87is43cy2s.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> <87wtsha006.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110396764 17196 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2005 19:32:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:32:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 20:32:44 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D938i-0008Hd-GJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:30:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D93NP-0007qs-Gq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:45:35 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y0DmNZj5CyHGc3d3veIAJ4GE/Fg= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.58.10.114 Original-X-Trace: 9 Mar 2005 16:25:13 +0100, 84.58.10.114 Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@arcor-ip.de Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.arcor-ip.de!news.arcor-ip.de!84.58.10.114 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129143 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24702 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24702 Josef Dalcolmo writes: > Well, it's not quite that simple - at least not with my NTemacs > version 21.3.50.1 > > There is no language environment called windows-1252 (though > windows-1255 exists). Since you are using a CVS version, update it to the latest. Or if you can't: use (require 'code-pages) > I think the default coding system for file I/O under Windows > should be cp1252 (aka windows-1252) or cp1252-dos, not > iso-latin-1-dos. Even better, Emacs should be able to determine the > locally used default encoding and use that as the default (which > varies by localization of the OS). Emacs uses the locale environment to determine the default coding system. (Other than that it should IMO default to UTF-8 and not to whatever Western (!) European users might prefer if they don't prefer UTF-8.) Oliver -- 19 Ventôse an 213 de la Révolution Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité!