Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>
> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 06:53:30 +0000 (UTC)
> Bcc: ilya@gnu.org
> 
> [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
> Eli Zaretskii 
> <eliz@gnu.org>], who wrote in article 
> <mailman.20871.1135945105.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>:
> > > Nonsense.  I'm discussing the input format of this pipe, not the input
> > > format of the printer.
> 
> > Please re-read my answer: it _was_ about the input format of the
> > pipe.  I said that you need not bother about the details you were
> > asking about.
> 
> You saying this does not make it valid.  How are you going to order
> pizza by phone if you do not know what language the operator speaks?

I don't order pizza, so I don't need to worry.

> > > There is no "current locale".  You probably mean "current codepage";
> 
> > If you insist that there's no "current locale" on Windows, please
> > spell out the difference between it and the "current codepage", on
> > Windows.
> 
> I know very little about Win*.  However, on DOSISH systems, all that
> codepages govern is 8bit-codepoint-to-character translations (and
> back) (here by "character" I mean something similar to Unicode
> codepoint).

No, DOS codepages governed only the codepoint-to-font translations.

> Locales govern many other things too.

Current Windows systems are much closer to the Posix locales than
MS-DOS ever was.