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> | > | (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