21.5.X Mule and iso-8859-8 hebrew font problem.

Uwe Brauer writes: That is correct. The bytes *are* the same. The difference between ISO 8859/8 and CP 1255 is that the latter has more characters in it, mostly punctuation encoded in positions that are reserved for control characters by the ISO standards. It is not possible for a machine to tell the difference between any of members of the ISO 8859 family or members of the CP 12xx family. They use exactly the same bytes. In general it is very difficult to distinguish any unibyte encoding from any other as the repertoires overlap almost 100%, and they typically share ASCII and a few other common characters (such as NO BREAK SPACE). Try C-u C-x C-f hebrew.txt RET cp1255 RET. If that doesn't work, I'll need more information. If you want this recognized automatically, you'll need to fiddle with the coding-priority-list. The easiest way to do this is probably to restart XEmacs with "LANG=he_IL.UTF-8 xemacs". (You don't want to do it with he_IL.ISO-8859-8 or worse he_IL.CP1255 because that will confuse the locale system, and may make it difficult for XEmacs to recognize UTF-8.) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta