From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ?manu* Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: switch between utf-8 and latin-1 (ARGH!!) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:32:43 +0200 Message-ID: <46z8m.2521$vm5.1698@tornado.fastwebnet.it> References: <1Sn8m.2418$vm5.686@tornado.fastwebnet.it> <87vdlpdg9l.fsf@galatea.local> <87vdlpaih7.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> <87r5wdcztb.fsf@galatea.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248019835 29099 80.91.229.12 (19 Jul 2009 16:10:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:10:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 19 18:10:28 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MSYy4-0002rv-Dr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:10:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52129 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MSYy3-0003ZW-Ml for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:10:27 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!tornado.fastwebnet.it!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87r5wdcztb.fsf@galatea.local> Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 27.243.168.45 Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@fastweb.it Original-X-Trace: tornado.fastwebnet.it 1247985152 27.243.168.45 (Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:32:32 CEST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:32:32 CEST Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171033 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:02:48 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66222 Archived-At: Pascal J. Bourguignon ha scritto: > Normally, you would have checked the user manual, Yes, you're right. I was scared by the large amount of material. I checked it now, and found another solution: M-x find-file-literally But, anyway, the problem was that I didn't understand that emacs was re-encoding the file when I changed the file variables. I thought that the variables were read only while reading the file and not also when saving it... I cannot find a description of this behaviour in the manual. E.