Re: iso-8859-1 problems.

[Mattias Ahnberg <mattias@ahnberg.pp.se>]

>> "KG" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> writes:

KG> There are more differences.

*nods* I just read about them.

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

Ok, I just thought it would be illogical if it would've been a font
issue. But perhaps because I am not used to the idea of emacs and
various charsets in this way.

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

Ok. But how do I solve the issue so that Emacs can understand both
iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15 in the same "terminal"? I get most e-mails
in iso-8859-1 charset, but a select few in iso-8859-15, there must be
some way to allow me to see both without problems with this.

I just don't understand where to start looking or what the problem
is that needs to be fixed.

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

I've loaded latin1-disp without much happening to differ from what I
experienced to begin with. I read the .el file but didn't notice what
would affect me, latin1-display-sets variable contains both Latin-1
and Latin-9, which should cover the two I've mentioned above.

/ahnberg.