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From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: encoding used by those #some.txt# backup?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:30:34 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <692dfade-ef63-40aa-96e9-229d65e1a584@r41g2000prr.googlegroups.com> (raw)

it seems emacs's crash backup files saved my utf-8 files in a
different encoding.

for example, if i'm editing x.txt, i have a line:

∑ something

then emacs will create a file #x.txt# while x.txt buffer has not been
saved.
If i have a crash, then opening the #x.txt# file the content is:

\234\364\370\261 something

since my files have lots of unicode, this renders those auto-save not
usable. (diff becomes useless because about every line is shown as
different due to the encoding)

is this a bug or am i missing some file encoding for this type of
backups?
Those normal backup x.txt~ files are fine.

Thanks.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

☄



             reply	other threads:[~2009-01-19 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-19 18:30 Xah Lee [this message]
2009-01-19 20:37 ` encoding used by those #some.txt# backup? Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-29  5:59 ` fnn

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