From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Encodings in Emacs.
Date: 19 May 2003 09:56:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5l4r3roxa8.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ur86v8dis.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de
> So the only way to get what you want is to tell Emacs which coding
> system it should use to read that file *before* Emacs visits it. You
> can do this with `C-x RET c'. For example:
> `C-x RET c shift_jis RET C-x f your-file.txt RET'
^^^
C-f of course
> But cautiion: I am not familiar with the encodings you mentioned, but
> I think when you have a file with several encodings you will break
> the parts with the "other" encodings, when you save that file.
There were indeed such bug in Emacs-20 and I'm sure there are still
some in Emacs-21, but note that it shouldn't happen and if you get
such lossage, you should report it as a bug with M-x report-emacs-bug.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-19 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-19 9:27 Encodings in Emacs Nacho
2003-05-19 9:57 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-05-19 13:23 ` Nacho
2003-05-19 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-19 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-05-20 8:59 ` Nacho
2003-05-19 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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