From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: How do I read and write an iso-8859-1 file in Emacs 23?
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:43:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100328204351.GA2402@muc.de> (raw)
Hi, everybody,
the subject just about says everything. Emacs 23 insists on fouling up
my text, converting (for example) ü ("u umlaut") into \374 each time I
try to save it. It then complains it can't save \374 because it can't
"convert" it.
In desperation, I tried putting this on the first line of the text:
-*- mode : Text ; buffer-file-coding-system : iso-8859-1-unix -*-
. Should this help? Is it causing me problems?
I've tried reading the fine manual. It helps me not in the slightest.
What am I missing here? All I want to do is read an 8859-1 text file,
edit it, and write it back again. How do I tell Emacs that an 0xFC
character in the file is actually a "u umlaut", and not anything else.
Why is Emacs insisting on trying to be so clever?
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next reply other threads:[~2010-03-28 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-28 20:43 Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2010-03-28 21:11 ` How do I read and write an iso-8859-1 file in Emacs 23? Peter Dyballa
2010-03-29 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-30 10:42 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-03-30 11:33 ` Andreas Röhler
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