From: Thomas Gehrlein <thomas.gehrlein@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: German umlaut problems after moving from Windows to Linux
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 08:02:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3znb159tq.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3y8qmhv3q.fsf@defun.localdomain
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-01 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-27 10:30 German umlaut problems after moving from Windows to Linux Thomas Gehrlein
2004-02-28 16:26 ` LEE Sau Dan
2004-03-01 14:27 ` Thomas Gehrlein
2004-03-01 16:14 ` Piet van Oostrum
2004-02-29 11:12 ` Jesper Harder
2004-02-29 13:05 ` Thomas Gehrlein
2004-02-29 13:29 ` Jesper Harder
2004-03-01 7:02 ` Thomas Gehrlein [this message]
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