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Why is cp1252 special?
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Torsten Bronger |
Subject: |
Why is cp1252 special? |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:57:33 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hallöchen!
I use recent CVS versions of Gnus and Emacs.
After a couple of non-declared encodings in Outlook postings which I
received with Gnus, I wanted to change the fallback chain from cp437
(I've got a lot of old MSDOS files) to cp1252. At the moment, my
.emacs contains
(define-coding-system-alias 'cp1252 'windows-1252)
(prefer-coding-system 'cp1252)
(prefer-coding-system 'iso-latin-1)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
I'm just curious: Why is there some sort of asymmetry between cp1252
and most (if not all) other codepages? In particular, why is the
first line above necessary? By contrast, I can say
(prefer-coding-system 'cp1257)
without problems. A usenet search yielded some information about
the fact that cp1252 *is* special but not why. Additionally,
news:v9smnfv8ib.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de suggests that new
Emacs versions should allow
(codepage-setup 1252)
however, this doesn't work for me in .emacs.
Tschö,
Torsten.
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