Accents in Emacs 20.7.2

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Hi,

To get characters with accents (under Emacs 20.7.2), I type C-x RET k
iso-8859-1-unix (according to newsgroups archives, it should be
iso-8859-15, but it doesn't appear on my completion list). I think I
can add something in .emacs to make this automatically ? I've been
said I should upgrade my Emacs, but that's difficult as I'm not an
administrator on my machine. I already wrote
(standard-display-european t) in .emacs but that isn't sufficient.

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