Re: displaying the EUR-Sign in normal buffers

[Klaus Berndl]

On 04 Oct 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote:



> > I'm using NTEmacs 21.2 with Windows XP and the Oort Gnus 0.07. 
Here the
> > EUR-symbol is displayed automatically well.
>
>  Characters are never displayed "automatically": they're only 
displayed if
>  they are present in the buffer.

:-) Ok, i will try to be more precise: If a posting contains the 
EUR sign (€) then it is displayed automatically (means i have 
nothing to configure in Gnus for this) correctly in the 
summary-buffer as well as in the message- or article buffer.

> > But if I'm not using Gnus but any other normal buffer in my 
Emacs the
> > EUR-Symbol is not displayed.
>
>  What is displayed in its place ?

If for example i insert an EUR sign (€) in Microsoft Word, copy it 
to the clipboard and try to insert it into a normal Emacs-buffer 
(e.g. *scratch*) then i get only \200.

> > I suppose the reason is that i do not using a latin-15 charset 
but
> > a latin-1. The problem is that i want to use latin-15 instead 
of latin-1
> > but i do not know how?!
>
>  Set your LANG envvar to de_DE@euro ?

Ok, after this my *current-language-environment* has value 
"Latin-9" which seems to be correct but nevertheless i have no 
success with inserting an EUR sign (€), neither by pasting from 
the clipboard (still getting \200) nor by hitting the 
key-combination (German keyboard: Alt Gr + e) which inserts € into 
a Word-document for example (in Emacs no reaction means nothing is 
inserted).

Is this clearer now?

Ciao,
Klaus

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