Re: No i-search for € in iso-8859-16 coded buffer

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.11.2005 um 02:03 schrieb Juri Linkov:

> > In a buffer starting with ';;; -*- mode: Text; coding: iso-8859-16;
> > -*-' (-r: in the mode-line) and holding the characters in the range
> > 160-255 i-search for € is not successful:
> >
> >         € = 244 = 164 = A4 = U+20AC = E2 82 AC : EURO SIGN
>
> That's because ISO-8859-15 (Latin-9) is coded internally
> with latin-iso8859-15 charset, but ISO-8859-16 (Latin-10)
> is coded with mule-unicode-0100-24ff charset.  I don't know a
> reason for this decision.  Perhaps there are some ISO-8859-16
> characters that exist only in mule-unicode-0100-24ff, and not
> in any of latin-iso8859-... charsets.

I could live with this decision, but I would prefer a state in which 
the characters could be found.

Besides the € there are these too:

Ą = 241 = 161 = A1 = U+0104 =    C4 84 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH 
OGONEK
ą = 242 = 162 = A2 = U+0105 =    C4 85 : LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH 
OGONEK
Ł = 243 = 163 = A3 = U+0141 =    C5 81 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH 
STROKE
„ = 245 = 165 = A5 = U+201E = E2 80 9E : DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
š = 250 = 168 = A8 = U+0160 =    C5 A1 : LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
Ș = 252 = 170 = AA = U+0218 =    C8 98 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH 
COMMA BELOW
Ź = 254 = 172 = AC = U+0179 =    C5 B9 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH 
ACUTE
ź = 256 = 174 = AE = U+017A =    C5 BA : LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH ACUTE
Ż = 257 = 175 = AF = U+017B =    C5 BB : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH 
DOT ABOVE
Č = 262 = 178 = B2 = U+010C =    C4 8C : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH 
CARON
ł = 263 = 179 = B3 = U+0142 =    C5 82 : LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH 
STROKE
Ž = 264 = 180 = B4 = U+017D =    C5 BD : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH 
CARON
” = 265 = 181 = B5 = U+201D = E2 80 9D : RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
ž = 270 = 184 = B8 = U+017E =    C5 BE : LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
č = 271 = 185 = B9 = U+010D =    C4 8D : LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CARON
ș = 272 = 186 = BA = U+0219 =    C8 99 : LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH 
COMMA BELOW
Π= 274 = 188 = BC = U+0152 =    C5 92 : LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
œ = 275 = 189 = BD = U+0153 =    C5 93 : LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
Ÿ = 276 = 190 = BE = U+0178 =    C5 B8 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH 
DIAERESIS
ż = 277 = 191 = BF = U+017C =    C5 BC : LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DOT 
ABOVE
Ă = 303 = 195 = C3 = U+0102 =    C4 82 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH 
BREVE
Ć = 305 = 197 = C5 = U+0106 =    C4 86 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH 
ACUTE
Ń = 321 = 209 = D1 = U+0143 =    C5 83 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH 
ACUTE
Ő = 325 = 213 = D5 = U+0150 =    C5 90 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH 
DOUBLE ACUTE
Ś = 327 = 215 = D7 = U+015A =    C5 9A : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH 
ACUTE
Ű = 330 = 216 = D8 = U+0170 =    C5 B0 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH 
DOUBLE ACUTE
Ę = 335 = 221 = DD = U+0118 =    C4 98 : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH 
OGONEK
Ț = 336 = 222 = DE = U+021A =    C8 9A : LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH 
COMMA BELOW
ă = 343 = 227 = E3 = U+0103 =    C4 83 : LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE
ć = 345 = 229 = E5 = U+0107 =    C4 87 : LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH ACUTE
ń = 361 = 241 = F1 = U+0144 =    C5 84 : LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH ACUTE
ő = 365 = 245 = F5 = U+0151 =    C5 91 : LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH 
DOUBLE ACUTE
ś = 367 = 247 = F7 = U+015B =    C5 9B : LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH ACUTE
ű = 370 = 248 = F8 = U+0171 =    C5 B1 : LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH 
DOUBLE ACUTE
ę = 375 = 253 = FD = U+0119 =    C4 99 : LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH 
OGONEK
ț = 376 = 254 = FE = U+021B =    C8 9B : LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH 
COMMA BELOW


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  Pete

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