Re: unicode files created with windows notepad

["David Ellis" <ddellis@mail.com>]

As a test, I removed my .emacs file to ensure that there was not something 
in it that caused a problem.

I made a text file test.txt with notepad saving it as a unicode file.

Then, in emacs I opened it using the following.

C-x RET c utf-16-le RET C-x C-f c:/test.txt RET

The file opens fine.

Then I set debug-on-error to t.

If I edit the file and then do C-x C-f to save, I get an error.

Here is the info from the *Backtrace* buffer.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function utf-16-le-pre-write-conversion)
  utf-16-le-pre-write-conversion(1 31)
  write-region(1 31 "c:/test.txt" nil t "c:/test.txt")
  basic-save-buffer-2()
  basic-save-buffer-1()
  basic-save-buffer()
  save-buffer(1)
* call-interactively(save-buffer)

Can anyone tell me what is wrong?

Can anyone duplicate this problem?

My emacs version is GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2004-03-10 
on NYAUMO.

Dave


"David Ellis" <ddellis@mail.com> wrote in message 
news:RMGdnVrKy_3mQWLcRVn-2A@wideopenwest.com...
>I am trying to edit a unicode file created with Windows NotePad.
>
> What encoding method should I use?
>
> I have tried the following
>    utf-16-le
>    utf-16-le-dos
>    mule-utf-16-le-dos
>
> I am trying to read an xml file. I have the psgml-1.2.5 package installed.
>
> When I open the file with any of the above encoding, I either get an error 
> when the psgml package loads or an error when I try to save the file.
>
> If I save the same file with UTF-8 encoding in NotePad and open it with 
> emacs with UTF-8 encoding, I have no problems. So, it appears that I do 
> not have the correct encoding when I am trying to read the unicode file.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Dave
>