Re: address@hidden: Coding problem with Euro sign]

[Kevin Rodgers]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>From: Kevin Rodgers <address@hidden>
>>Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:02:48 -0700
>>
>>OK, now I've actually tried that here in Emacs 21.4 running on
>>Unix/Solaris under X.  First it complained that cp1252 is an invalid
>>coding system, so I found the "MS-DOS and MULE" Info node referenced
>>from the "Coding Systems" node and tried `M-x codepage-setup'.  It
>>wouldn't take 1252, but a quick search in that node revealed that the
>>right number is 850.
>
>
> Emacs 21.x doesn't support cp1252, and cp850 is not an equivalent of
> cp1252.

Ah, I misunderstood the following passage from the MS-DOS and MULE info
node:

,----
|    MS-Windows provides its own codepages, which are different from the
| DOS codepages for the same locale.  For example, DOS codepage 850
| supports the same character set as Windows codepage 1252; DOS codepage
| 855 supports the same character set as Windows codepage 1251, etc.  The
| MS-Windows version of Emacs uses the current codepage for display when
| invoked with the `-nw' option.
`----

So 850 and 1252 assign the same set of characters to different code
points?

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Kevin Rodgers