Re: displaying the Eurosign at all

[Oliver Scholz]

Josef Dalcolmo <dalcolmo@vh-s.de> writes:

> Well, it's not quite that simple - at least not with my NTemacs
> version 21.3.50.1
>
> There is no language environment called windows-1252 (though
> windows-1255 exists). 

Since you are using a CVS version, update it to the latest. Or if you
can't: use (require 'code-pages)

> I think the default coding system for file I/O under Windows
> should be cp1252 (aka windows-1252) or cp1252-dos, not
> iso-latin-1-dos. Even better, Emacs should be able to determine the
> locally used default encoding and use that as the default (which
> varies by localization of the OS).

Emacs uses the locale environment to determine the default coding
system. (Other than that it should IMO default to UTF-8 and not to
whatever Western (!) European users might prefer if they don't prefer
UTF-8.)

    Oliver
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