From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <200006101226.OAA17355@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: Character differences
In-Reply-To: <200006011317.QAA20532@is.elta.co.il> from Eli Zaretskii at "Jun 1, 2000 04:17:13 pm"
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 14:26:32 +0200 (MET DST)
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According to Eli Zaretskii:
> Long answer:  The problem is that non-ASCII characters can be encoded
> in several different ways.  The general issue is too broad to explain,
> but for Western Europe, the encoding used by Unix and Linux is ISO8859-1,
> a.k.a. Latin-1.  Windows uses codepage 1252 which just happens to be
> identical with Latin-1 (other locales, such as Cyrillic and East
> European, are not so lucky).  OTOH, the DJGPP port of Emacs by default
> uses the DOS codepage set up on your system; for West Europe this is
> typically either cp850 or cp437.  Thus, Emacs encodes the same
> character differently than Windows programs expect, and therefore
> Windows programs display a different glyph for that code.  If you look
> at the file with another DJGPP program, such as Less, you *will* see the
> glyph you expect.
> 
> You can force Emacs to use specific encoding with "C-x C-m f" or 
> "C-x C-m c" key sequences.  These are described in the Emacs manual.
> 
> For more info about codepage support in Emacs, read the node "MS-DOS
> and MULE" in the on-line manual.
> 
> (I'm assuming you use Emacs 20.x; if not, you don't have an easy way
> of producing different encodings of the same character.)

I'm still on emacs 19.34. Can I make that emacs use Latin-1?

The reason for CCing djgpp-workers: What encoding should the source
files use (I'm mainly thinking about getting my surname right)?
Latin-1?


Right,

							MartinS