Re: can not decode 0x93 and 0x94 to correct char

[William Xue]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:30:01 +0800, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> > From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:31:04 +0900
> > Cc: address@hidden
> >
> > \223 and \224 are code points of cp125X for LEFT DOUBLE
> > QUOTATION MARK and RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK.  Their
> > Unicode code points are U+201C and U+201D (note that they
> > are not included in ISO-8859-1).
> >
> > With the trunk Emacs, you must use UTF-8 (or the other
> > UTF-based encodings, some of CJK encodings) to handle those
> > characters.
>
> Actually, Emacs 22.1 displays these characters just fine if I type
> "C-x RET c cp1252 RET C-x C-f char_err_clip.c RET".  OTOH, using UTF-8
> instead if cp1252 still displays octal escapes, like I'd expect.
>
> AFAIK, in Emacs 22 on Windows, cp1252 and friends map these characters
> into Unicode by design, and that is why using cp1252 for visiting this
> file does The Right Thing.  So I don't think the OP needs to wait for
> the inherent Unicode support.

I use the following settings in .emacs to make the things work.

(prefer-coding-system 'windows-1258)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-emacs)


--
Yours,
WilliamX