From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:39:44 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1134660719.186074.250590@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136486105 32329 80.91.229.2 (5 Jan 2006 18:35:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:35:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 05 19:35:04 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EuZwV-00084g-MH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:34:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EuZyF-0003du-IE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:36:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EuYBH-00046J-KT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:41:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EuYBF-00045G-Jv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:41:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EuYBD-00044T-7i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:41:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EuYCn-00014P-U0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 11:43:14 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-203-236.inter.net.il [80.230.203.236]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id CJR45066 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:39:44 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Ilya Zakharevich on Thu, 5 Jan 2006 06:53:30 +0000 (UTC)) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32455 Archived-At: > From: Ilya Zakharevich > Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 06:53:30 +0000 (UTC) > Bcc: ilya@gnu.org > > [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to > Eli Zaretskii > ], who wrote in article : > > > Nonsense. I'm discussing the input format of this pipe, not the input > > > format of the printer. > > > Please re-read my answer: it _was_ about the input format of the > > pipe. I said that you need not bother about the details you were > > asking about. > > You saying this does not make it valid. How are you going to order > pizza by phone if you do not know what language the operator speaks? I don't order pizza, so I don't need to worry. > > > There is no "current locale". You probably mean "current codepage"; > > > If you insist that there's no "current locale" on Windows, please > > spell out the difference between it and the "current codepage", on > > Windows. > > I know very little about Win*. However, on DOSISH systems, all that > codepages govern is 8bit-codepoint-to-character translations (and > back) (here by "character" I mean something similar to Unicode > codepoint). No, DOS codepages governed only the codepoint-to-font translations. > Locales govern many other things too. Current Windows systems are much closer to the Posix locales than MS-DOS ever was.