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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: word syntax/umlauts emacs 23 vs 22
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:37:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvaalovq5g.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ygabp655t1n.fsf@gepard2.akutech-local.de

> | > | (prefer-coding-system 'windows-1252)
> | > No, those files should not be edited using a windows code page, they
> | > are supposed to be latin-1.
> | Are you saying that this char was an error?
> Hard to say.  Windows users insert \200 when they press the Euro sign on
> their keybord, Linux users enter \244.

Don't know about Windows, but at least for GNU/Linux what you say is
largely not true: all major distributions of GNU/Linux switched to utf-8
locales by default many years ago, so by now most GNU/Linux users will
insert #xE2 #x82 #xAC when they press the Euro sign.


        Stefan


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-04 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-12 17:00 word syntax/umlauts emacs 23 vs 22 Ralf Fassel
2010-10-12 22:15 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]   ` <yga7hhm1tma.fsf@gepard2.akutech-local.de>
2010-10-15 17:42     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-20 19:28       ` Ralf Fassel
2010-10-21  0:18         ` Jason Rumney
2010-10-21  1:27         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-21 13:25           ` Ralf Fassel
2010-10-21 15:24             ` Jason Rumney
2010-10-25  9:33               ` Ralf Fassel
2010-10-29 18:26                 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-04  9:36                   ` Ralf Fassel
2010-11-04 19:37                     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-10-26  2:53               ` Ilya Zakharevich
     [not found]             ` <jwv8w1p4pjo.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>
2010-10-25  9:31               ` Ralf Fassel

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