Re: Gnus not choosing latin9 if euro sign is present

[Kevin Bube <kbube@despammed.com>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 15 2005, Kevin Bube wrote:

>> emacs --no-site-file -fn  -*-fixed-medium-r-*--*-140-*-iso8859-15 -f gnus
>
> You shouldn't use iso8859-15 here:
>

[use iso8859-1]

>
> My guess is that you inserted a currency sign (¤) instead of a EUR.
> But it is displayed as EUR sign because of your bogus font setting.
> As currency is not included in iso-8859-15, Gnus chooses iso-8859-1.
>
> You can find out which char it is, by using `C-u C-x =' on the char.

  character: ¤ (04244, 2212, 0x8a4, U+00A4)
    charset: [latin-iso8859-1]
	     (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1): ISO-IR-100.)
 code point: [36]
     syntax: w 	which means: word
   category: l:Latin  
buffer code: 0x81 0xA4
  file code: 0xA4 (encoded by coding system iso-8859-1-unix)
    display: by this font (glyph code)
     -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--15-140-75-75-C-90-ISO8859-15 (0xA4)

Seems you are right. I thought this is intended and the only difference
between iso8859-1 and iso8859-15 is that the currency sign is replaced
by the Euro sign. This would mean that the character code is the same
and it only depends on the screen font what is displayed. So emacs has
no way to determine if you want a currency or euro sign.

What font do I have to choose if I want to get a euro sign?

Thanks,

Kevin