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Re: displaying the Eurosign at all
From: |
Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: displaying the Eurosign at all |
Date: |
07 Mar 2005 17:34:01 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
Josef Dalcolmo <dalcolmo@vh-s.de> writes:
> Dear Stefan,
>
> > BTW 128 (aka \200) is not the latin-9 encoding of the euro sign (it's 164,
> > aka \244), AFAIK, so the problem is most likely that you haven't correctly
> > described the coding-system used by your keyboard, which doesn't seem to be
> > latin-9.
>
> my keyboard coding-system was set to nil (I use a US keyboard) but
> that is not the problem I've encountered. The real culprit is once
> again Micro$oft. They are using a modified version of the Latin-1
> characterset (WinLatin-1, or whatever one can call it, and that is
> what I've been using without knowing for a while now. Using winlatin-1
> the Euro sign is on \200. That works fine on e-mail between Windows
> systems. I am not sure how to solve the problem in general. I would
> expect if I insert \244 in my email, using ordinary Windoze
> applications will see some wierd character, but not a EURO sign.
Perhaps emacs on MS-Windows can identify the special keyboard encoding
used there. Otherwise,
(global-set-key (kbd "\200") (lambda (n) (dotimes (i n) (insert "€"))))
should do.
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Re: displaying the Eurosign at all, Pascal Bourguignon, 2005/03/07