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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The text coding sytem for Emacs
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:19:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83aaz0awuz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <833a4ttdik.fsf@ymail.invalid>

> 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.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-06  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-05 11:30 The text coding sytem for Emacs Water Lin
2009-11-06  8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.10165.1257495636.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-11  2:36   ` Water Lin

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