From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61077 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Bube Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus not choosing latin9 if euro sign is present Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:42:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8764t3v28j.fsf@Jesper-Harders-Computer.local> <87ek7q5q1k.fsf@Jesper-Harders-Computer.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128358734 17070 80.91.229.2 (3 Oct 2005 16:58:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:58:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m9609@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Oct 03 18:58:53 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EMTad-0004Lk-IB for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:54:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EMTZg-0001x1-00; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:54:00 -0500 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EMTUm-0001ww-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:48:56 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EMTUg-0004aC-4J for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:48:56 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EMTUe-0001vw-00 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:48:48 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EMTQB-0000qs-Gq for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:44:11 +0200 Original-Received: from p5481cfa5.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.129.207.165]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:44:11 +0200 Original-Received: from kbube by p5481cfa5.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 18:44:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5481cfa5.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61077 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > On Fri, Sep 30 2005, Kevin Bube wrote: >> 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. > > This is not correct. Eval (C-x C-e behing the expression) the > following expressions and try `C-u C-x =': > > (insert (string (make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 164))) > (insert (string (make-char 'latin-iso8859-15 164))) Very interesting. Thanks for the example. Seems I have to read the mule section in the emacs manual again... >> What font do I have to choose if I want to get a euro sign? > > E.g. -*-fixed-medium-r-*--*-140-*-iso8859-1. Emacs will automatically > select iso8859-15 when displaying iso8859-15 characters. Ahh. Okay, I tried this and it works. Thanks. Regards, Kevin