Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 16:31:40 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Steamer wrote:

> One of the commonest character sets
> used in Windows is essentially the same as Latin-1

Let's try to be objective here: one of the commonest charsets IN WESTERN 
EUROPE.  In the Far East, for example, it's not true.

> One day everything will use Unicode and these problems will disappear.

Yeah, right ;-).

Anyway, Emacs can be set up to use either Latin-1 or codepage 1252 (the 
Windows equivalent) by default, if someone wants that.  The details are 
in the manual, in the section I cited in my other message in this thread.