Re: displaying the Eurosign at all

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Josef Dalcolmo <dalcolmo@vh-s.de> writes:

> Dear Stefan,
> 
> > BTW 128 (aka \200) is not the latin-9 encoding of the euro sign (it's 164,
> > aka \244), AFAIK, so the problem is most likely that you haven't correctly
> > described the coding-system used by your keyboard, which doesn't seem to be
> > latin-9.
> 
> my keyboard coding-system was set to nil (I use a US keyboard) but
> that is not the problem I've encountered. The real culprit is once
> again Micro$oft. They are using a modified version of the Latin-1
> characterset (WinLatin-1, or whatever one can call it, and that is
> what I've been using without knowing for a while now. Using winlatin-1
> the Euro sign is on \200. That works fine on e-mail between Windows
> systems. I am not sure how to solve the problem in general. I would
> expect if I insert \244 in my email, using ordinary Windoze
> applications will see some wierd character, but not a EURO sign.

Perhaps emacs on MS-Windows can identify the special keyboard encoding
used there.  Otherwise, 

 (global-set-key (kbd "\200") (lambda (n) (dotimes (i n) (insert "€"))))

should do.


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