From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is cp1252 special? Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:29:55 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: <87d5mhvbky.fsf@wilson.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128699487 2986 80.91.229.2 (7 Oct 2005 15:38:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 15:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 07 17:38:00 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ENuDY-00036n-Gp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:33:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ENuDX-0002g3-VD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:33:03 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 1; h7XMU[7l}$T@J.D}5z*w8Tg'}B5ArAWc8>2X~otB; kOjKs8X%|hTC#dG:%Vpx")x7S/`v :VXU#fZW$X$zdhEU.RfVQ@<-m9IuN{Hm"fW{,5]6kR'M*vEs+{5Cj!L(JTRzA$(},?5J=sm; %Od 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:30028 Archived-At: On Fri, Oct 07 2005, Torsten Bronger wrote: > I use recent CVS versions of Gnus and Emacs. > > After a couple of non-declared encodings in Outlook postings which I > received with Gnus, Please elaborate what's the problem in Gnus. > I'm just curious: Why is there some sort of asymmetry between cp1252 > and most (if not all) other codepages? I don't see any asymmetry: $ emacs-cvs -Q -f ielm *** Welcome to IELM *** Type (describe-mode) for help. ELISP> (coding-system-p 'cp1252) nil ELISP> (coding-system-p 'windows-1252) t ELISP> (coding-system-p 'cp1257) nil ELISP> (coding-system-p 'windows-1257) t ELISP> (prefer-coding-system 'cp1252) *** Eval error *** Invalid coding system `cp1252' ELISP> (prefer-coding-system 'cp1257) *** Eval error *** Invalid coding system `cp1257' ELISP> (prefer-coding-system 'windows-1252) (windows-1252 . windows-1252) ELISP> (prefer-coding-system 'windows-1257) (windows-1257 . windows-1257) > A usenet search yielded some information about the fact that cp1252 > *is* special but not why. Additionally, > news:v9smnfv8ib.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de suggests that new > Emacs versions should allow > > (codepage-setup 1252) > > however, this doesn't work for me in .emacs. The above mentioned article is 2 years old. The information there probably is not accurate anymore for current CVS Emacs. I don't recall that (codepage-setup 1252) ever worked. BTW: `rs-windows-1252.el' is obsolete; With recent CVS Emacs 22, you don't even need it's replacement `rs-ucs-coding-system.el': ,---- | 2005-08-05 Kenichi Handa | | * international/code-pages.el: Add autoload cookies for all coding | systems. | | [...] | | 2005-03-04 Reiner Steib | | * international/code-pages.el (windows-1250, windows-125[2-8]) | (iso-8859-10, -13, -16, georgian-ps): Add autoload cookies. `---- Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/