Re: iso-8859-1 problems.

[kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann)]

Mattias Ahnberg <mattias@ahnberg.pp.se> writes:

>>> "JH" == Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>
> JH> My guess is that it's a font problem.
>
> The only thing that should differ iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15 is the
> Euro character, afaik. 

There are more differences.

> If I can show iso-8859-1 without _any_ problems, how could that be a
> font problem?

Please note that iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15 are different charsets to
Emacs, and Emacs does not have the concept of "similar" charsets.

If your terminal uses iso-8859-1 and you have a buffer containing a
character from another charset (be it iso-8859-2 or iso-8859-15 or
gb2312 or UTF-8), Emacs considers it different and shows `?'
instead.  (Emacs has special treatment for ascii characters, so these
can be displayed from any charset that's a superset of ascii.)

You can use latin1-disp.el to teach Emacs about the concept of
"similar" charsets.

The font issue is irrelevant for ttys.
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