Re: EURO-Symbol in GNU Emacs

[RjjdBae]

I ran your insert-euro (Thanks!) using Windows emacs (21.3.1
(i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2004-03-10 on NYAUMO), and it showed a Euro
in the emacs buffer.
I saved the file, and opened it with Microsoft Word 2003.  Most of the
font choices that appeared in the little window that popped up when I
opened the file showed a little Sputnik, but Latin 9 showed a Euro.

I couldn't find a font in Notepad or Wordpad that would draw a Euro.
Neither had Latin 9.

What is your "regular text-editor"?

Regards, Bob


juergen melzer wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am really stuck getting the EURO-Symbol shown and written in Emacs.
>
> My Emacs-version is: GNU Emac 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) on a MS Windows 
> XP (SP2) system (bad habbit, I know ;-) )
>
> For displaying the symbol, I first tried using the ms-latn-ex.el package by 
> this commands .emacs:
> a) (autoload 'ms-latn-ex "latin-extra") and
> b) (set-face-font 'default '"latin-extra")
>
> My second try was to use the following (also in .emacs):
> (set-w32-system-coding-system 'iso-8859-15)
>
> Both approaches ran without errors when emacs starts.
> Even so, what I am shown in emacs is: \200 for the EURO-Symbol inserted by an 
> regular text-editor.
>
> Secondly I tryd something to write the EURO-Symbol by following function:
> (defun insert-euro ()
>   "insert the euro sign"
>   (interactive "*")
>   (insert (string (make-char 'latin-iso8859-15 164))))
>
> It actually shows me an EURO-Symbol, but a regular text-editor is showing me 
> the following: Ž¤
>
> Please help me, I really spend hours an that problem and did'nt fix anything.
>
> Thanks so much in advance,
>
>
> Juergen Melzer
>
>
>
>
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> Hi there,<br><br>I am really stuck getting the EURO-Symbol shown and written 
> in Emacs.<br><br>My Emacs-version is: GNU Emac 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) 
> on a MS Windows XP (SP2) system (bad habbit, I know ;-) )<br><br>For 
> displaying the symbol, I first tried using the ms-latn-ex.el package by this 
> commands .emacs:<br>a) (autoload 'ms-latn-ex "latin-extra") and <br>b) 
> (set-face-font 'default '"latin-extra")<br><br>My second try was to use the 
> following (also in .emacs):<br>(set-w32-system-coding-system 
> 'iso-8859-15)<br><br>Both approaches ran without errors when emacs 
> starts.<br>Even so, what I am shown in emacs is: \200 for the EURO-Symbol 
> inserted by an regular text-editor.<br><br>Secondly I tryd something to write 
> the EURO-Symbol by following function:<br>(defun insert-euro ()<br>&nbsp; 
> "insert the euro sign"<br>&nbsp; (interactive "*")<br>&nbsp; (insert (string 
> (make-char 'latin-iso8859-15 164))))<br><br>It actually shows me an 
> EURO-Symbol, but a regular text-editor is
>  showing me the following: Ž¤<br><br>Please help me, I really spend hours an 
> that problem and did'nt fix anything.<br><br>Thanks so much in 
> advance,<br><br><br>Juergen Melzer<br><br><br><br><p> 
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