Re: Windows + Eshell: fixing character encoding?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 29.07.2009 um 10:12 schrieb Elena:

> buffer-file-coding-system is iso-latin-1-dos. I think it should be
> iso8859-1, but the variable's description does not says it is
> customizable.

Both are the same, just two different names.

> "C-u C-x =" prints:
>
>   character: … (133, #o205, #x85, U+0085)
>     charset: eight-bit-control (8-bit control code (0x80..0x9F))


From where do you know that \205 and \212 stand for à and è etc.?

The NeXT encoding comes next to your assumption:

        ;   oct   dec   hex    UCS2    UTF-8
        ;=====================================
        Ä = 205 = 133 = 85 = U+00C4 =    C3 84 : A diaeresis
        Ê = 212 = 138 = 8A = U+00CA =    C3 8A : E circumflex

In ISO Latin-1 or ISO 8859-1 the two characters are:

	à = 340 = 224 = E0 = U+00E0 =    C3 A0 : LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH  
GRAVE
	è = 350 = 232 = E8 = U+00E8 =    C3 A8 : LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH  
GRAVE


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  Pete

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