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Re: euro symbol
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: euro symbol |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:54:49 +0200 |
> From: Francesco Potorti` <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:01:52 +0200
>
> > Also: is it reasonable to assume the latin-9 character set as a default
> > for the Italian (or any European) language environment? Isn't it safer
> > to assume latin-1?
>
> I don't know what is the best default for Italian. However, please
> note that by setting LANG to something like it.iso8859-15, a user
> tells Emacs to use Latin-9 rather than the default. (At least that's
> how this is supposed to work; I didn't try.)
>
> My question was referring to the case when I define a new language
> environment for Italian. In that case, one would say in .emacs:
>
> (set-language-environment "Italian")
Right; but if LANG is set to something appropriate, Emacs calls
set-language-environment automatically for you.
> and the rest would come along automatically, including the fonts to be
> used. If this is correct, then setting language to Italian would be a
> problem in those places where a latin-9 font does not exist.
If you define Italian to use latin-9 by default, people who don't have
latin-9 installed will have problems. But they can still set LANG to
it.iso8859-1 to force Emacs use latin-1 instead of latin-9, I think.
Re: euro symbol, Dave Love, 2001/10/26