Re: German umlaut problems after moving from Windows to Linux

[Jesper Harder]

Thomas Gehrlein <thomas.gehrlein@t-online.de> writes:

> ;; problems with latin-9 on Windows
> (define-coding-system-alias 'latin-9 'latin-1)
> (define-coding-system-alias 'iso-8859-15 'latin-1)
>
> I don't remember exactly, why I added the last two lines.  I think
> it had to do with Gnus.

Previous versions of Emacs didn't support Latin-9, which is probably
why you added them.  Now that Emacs 21.3 does, you'll want to get rid
of the two lines.

By the way, when you do things like that it's always a good idea to
guard it with a test, e.g.

(unless (coding-system-p 'latin-9)
  (define-coding-system-alias 'latin-9 'latin-1))

which makes it more future-proof.