* The text coding sytem for Emacs
@ 2009-11-05 11:30 Water Lin
2009-11-06 8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Water Lin @ 2009-11-05 11:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
I re-install my Windows XP system. But after I start Emacs, it treats my
text file as iso-latin-1-unix. But actually the coding system should be
utf-8. So Emacs shows the text as a mess.
When I change the coding to UTF-8 by M-x
revert-buffer-with-coding-system, the text file works normally.
How can I let Emacs to treat text file as UTF-8 by default?
Thanks
Water Lin
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2009-11-05 11:30 The text coding sytem for Emacs Water Lin
@ 2009-11-06 8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2009-11-06 8:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> From: Water Lin <WaterLin@ymail.invalid>
> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:30:27 +0800
>
>
> I re-install my Windows XP system. But after I start Emacs, it treats my
> text file as iso-latin-1-unix. But actually the coding system should be
> utf-8. So Emacs shows the text as a mess.
What version of Emacs is that? With Emacs 23.1 I think this shouldn't
happen (barring some rare bug). If you don't have Emacs 23.1, can you
upgrade?
> How can I let Emacs to treat text file as UTF-8 by default?
For this file only, or for all files?
For the latter `(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)' in your .emacs should
do, I think. For the former, you can add a `coding:' cookie to the
file.
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* Re: The text coding sytem for Emacs
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@ 2009-11-11 2:36 ` Water Lin
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From: Water Lin @ 2009-11-11 2:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Water Lin <WaterLin@ymail.invalid>
>> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:30:27 +0800
>>
>>
>> I re-install my Windows XP system. But after I start Emacs, it treats my
>> text file as iso-latin-1-unix. But actually the coding system should be
>> utf-8. So Emacs shows the text as a mess.
>
> What version of Emacs is that? With Emacs 23.1 I think this shouldn't
> happen (barring some rare bug). If you don't have Emacs 23.1, can you
> upgrade?
>
>> How can I let Emacs to treat text file as UTF-8 by default?
>
> For this file only, or for all files?
>
> For the latter `(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)' in your .emacs should
> do, I think. For the former, you can add a `coding:' cookie to the
> file.
>
>
Yes, I am using Emacs 23.1. I fix this problem by adding
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
to my .emacs file.
Thanks
Water Lin
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Email: WaterLin@ymail.com
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