From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: data files littered with \234\456 instead of accented chars Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:32:40 +0100 Message-ID: <11890A42-D227-4050-A462-F6246F798BB5@Web.DE> References: <1364476502289-282192.post@n5.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364478006 31568 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2013 13:40:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:40:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michel Chassey Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 28 14:40:31 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ULD4A-0004JM-2i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:40:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47594 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULD3l-0005kU-VR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:40:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52934) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULCwi-0006FS-Ql for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:32:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULCwd-0002Ge-9p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:32:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:58291) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULCwd-0002GN-0y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:32:43 -0400 Original-Received: from sumac.fritz.box ([88.153.243.36]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb103) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0LkhFg-1UtRIi2T0W-00aqLd; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:32:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1364476502289-282192.post@n5.nabble.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:ZhsSp1SRXAfhUGi6Vayj3bzeg/gAaxqfRO6y+4em45k 3cp9O1FKQDJlMTZYfDMFCvjegX2ZCm4EWVmzl9Df0/P1aURsVU frs8UlFJ+qDkAXk6DDJ8S3LtamwddBKveaDPRiiMSljNauilzg st2fkkaDcA1ZBUAgbAjGDV8z01Mk0rGXOoIJFD+ywsRGniJL9p G5SzevaL2mQfeQfcbqoXA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.4 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89783 Archived-At: Am 28.03.2013 um 14:15 schrieb Michel Chassey: > When I try to save the file it asks for a coding system. It's not possible to have \234\456 =96 \456 is not possible in octal = notation. The presence of pairs similar to those makes it likely that = you have an UTF-8 encoded text=85 You can set in your environment the variables LANG or LC_CTYPE to point = to an UTF-8 based encoding. -- Greetings Pete Know thyself. Need help, call GOOGLE.