Josef Dalcolmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d? s++:++ a+ C+++ UL++++ P--- L+++ E+++ W++ N+++ o-- K- w--- O- M++ V PS PE++ Y++ PGP t+ 5+ X++ R !tv b+++ DI++++ D++ G e+++ h+ r-- z? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
