From: Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
Subject: Re: displaying the Eurosign at all
Date: 07 Mar 2005 17:34:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y8czh0ue.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2905.1110213034.32256.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Josef Dalcolmo <dalcolmo@vh-s.de> writes:
> Dear Stefan,
>
> > BTW 128 (aka \200) is not the latin-9 encoding of the euro sign (it's 164,
> > aka \244), AFAIK, so the problem is most likely that you haven't correctly
> > described the coding-system used by your keyboard, which doesn't seem to be
> > latin-9.
>
> my keyboard coding-system was set to nil (I use a US keyboard) but
> that is not the problem I've encountered. The real culprit is once
> again Micro$oft. They are using a modified version of the Latin-1
> characterset (WinLatin-1, or whatever one can call it, and that is
> what I've been using without knowing for a while now. Using winlatin-1
> the Euro sign is on \200. That works fine on e-mail between Windows
> systems. I am not sure how to solve the problem in general. I would
> expect if I insert \244 in my email, using ordinary Windoze
> applications will see some wierd character, but not a EURO sign.
Perhaps emacs on MS-Windows can identify the special keyboard encoding
used there. Otherwise,
(global-set-key (kbd "\200") (lambda (n) (dotimes (i n) (insert "€"))))
should do.
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__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2002-10-07 22:45 ` displaying the Eurosign at all Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
[not found] ` <m3u1jx2v40.fsf@kuntu.zangpo.org>
2002-10-08 9:36 ` Klaus Berndl
2005-03-07 13:49 ` Josef Dalcolmo
[not found] ` <mailman.2882.1110206200.32256.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-03-07 14:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-07 15:44 ` Josef Dalcolmo
[not found] ` <mailman.2905.1110213034.32256.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-03-07 16:34 ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
2005-03-09 4:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-09 8:34 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.3091.1110358306.32256.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-03-09 10:27 ` Oliver Scholz
2005-03-09 15:11 ` Josef Dalcolmo
2005-03-09 15:23 ` Oliver Scholz
2005-03-09 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-07 15:28 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2002-10-07 23:10 Raimund.Kohl
2002-10-07 21:52 ` ken
2002-10-07 23:48 ` Raimund.Kohl
[not found] <mailman.1034027410.506.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-10-08 4:35 ` Miles Bader
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