Re: Gnus not choosing latin9 if euro sign is present

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Sep 30 2005, Kevin Bube wrote:

>   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. 

iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15 differ at 8 positions.

> 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)))

> 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.

Bye, Reiner.
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