Well, it's not quite that simple - at least not with my NTemacs version 21.3.50.1
There is no language environment called windows-1252 (though windows-1255 exists). The default terminal and keyboard encoding is indeed cp1252, which explains why I wasn't having problems with typing and displaying EURO signs. However, when default file I/O is coded in C to be default-buffer-file-coding-system = 'iso-latin-1-dos' Setting this variable to cp1252 did not do the trick either. I had to set file-coding-system-alist (I added an entry for .txt to be mapped to cp1252, and now I can see the EURO sign instead of the \200 when opening a text file generated under Windows2000 by another application.) Modifying (file-coding-system-alist) wasn't trivial, because configure shows two of the entries to be mapped to functions erroneously as strings. If I just add something to the list and save it, I get an error. I guess this is a bug. I think the default coding system for file I/O under Windows should be cp1252 (aka windows-1252) or cp1252-dos, not iso-latin-1-dos. Even better, Emacs should be able to determine the locally used default encoding and use that as the default (which varies by localization of the OS). - Josef _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
