Re: windows-1251

[Ognyan Kulev]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> If it is useful to make cpNNN (for certain values of N) be defined by
> default, we will do it.  If that means codepage.el should not be
> deprecated, then it's not deprecated.  However, if there is a better
> way to implement them, then let's use the better way.

Concerning bulgarian support, there is no reason to include cp1251 in 
core too, because it's an alias for windows-1251, which is already in 
Emacs core.

There is something different between windows-1251 (as in core) and 
cp1251 (as in codepage.el) in choosing which exact X font to use.  In 
fact, it's not that cp1251 successfully maps 1251 to the X font, but 
cp1251 successfully _replaces_ the selected "global text font" with 
another one that contains the needed characters.  windows-1251 isn't so 
successful in doing so.

I have no idea about Emacs internals about handling fonts.  Will you 
list some source files where I can begin to look for clues?

Regards
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