Re: German umlaut problems after moving from Windows to Linux

[Thomas Gehrlein <thomas.gehrlein@t-online.de>]

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

>> ;; problems with latin-9 on Windows
>> (define-coding-system-alias 'latin-9 'latin-1)
>> (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-15 'latin-1)
>>
>> I don't remember exactly, why I added the last two lines.  I think
>> it had to do with Gnus.
>
> Previous versions of Emacs didn't support Latin-9, which is probably
> why you added them.  Now that Emacs 21.3 does, you'll want to get rid
> of the two lines.
>
> By the way, when you do things like that it's always a good idea to
> guard it with a test, e.g.
>
> (unless (coding-system-p 'latin-9)
>   (define-coding-system-alias 'latin-9 'latin-1))
>
> which makes it more future-proof.

Good piece of advice.  I think I'll need to go through my .emacs line by line
and check for other stuff that that is OS or version specific and might cause
trouble.

Thank you for your help.

Thomas