Probelm with paste text from web pages

Probelm with paste text from web pages

[twiki]

When i paste text from Opera/Firefox in a buffer
and i want to save this buffer...
i have always to solve this question:

[...]
These default coding systems were tried to encode text
in the buffer `test.txt':
  (iso-latin-1-dos (72 . 8592) (143 . 8217) (222 . 8217) (251 . 8217)
  (318 . 8217) (355 . 8217) (458 . 8217) (685 . 8217) (755 . 8217)
  (960 . 8217) (1021 . 8230))
However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode:
  iso-latin-1-dos cannot encode these: ...
[...]

How to paste text with apostrophes, accents, etc. for
to save in iso-latin1-dos?

THANX in ADVANCE!

Re: Probelm with paste text from web pages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:05:41 -0700 (PDT)
> From: twiki <lap7619@yahoo.it>
> Injection-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:05:41 +0000
> 
> When i paste text from Opera/Firefox in a buffer
> and i want to save this buffer...
> i have always to solve this question:
> 
> [...]
> These default coding systems were tried to encode text
> in the buffer `test.txt':
>   (iso-latin-1-dos (72 . 8592) (143 . 8217) (222 . 8217) (251 . 8217)
>   (318 . 8217) (355 . 8217) (458 . 8217) (685 . 8217) (755 . 8217)
>   (960 . 8217) (1021 . 8230))
> However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode:
>   iso-latin-1-dos cannot encode these: ...
> [...]
> 
> How to paste text with apostrophes, accents, etc. for
> to save in iso-latin1-dos?

You can't, not without changing those characters to their equivalents,
and deleting those that don't have equivalents.  These characters
simply don't exist in the Latin-1 character set.

Why do you want to save them in iso-latin1-dos?  What's wrong with
utf-8-dos?

Re: Probelm with paste text from web pages

[twiki]

> 
> Why do you want to save them in iso-latin1-dos?  What's wrong with
> 
> utf-8-dos?

Default coding system (for new files) in my Emacs installation is:

iso-latin-1-dos

maybe for my local-setup... moreover i've most files in iso-latin-1-dos!

Re: Probelm with paste text from web pages

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.09.2012 um 12:31 schrieb twiki:

> maybe for my local-setup... moreover i've most files in iso-latin-1-dos!

Then try to tell your browser to display the pages in ISO Latin-1! It might also be possible to tell your windowing system to convert everything copied to ISO Latin-1. I've heard (or rather read) of a so-called registry…

In using UTF-8 instead of ISO Latin-1 your saved files on disk will contain the same bytes for the characters in the US-ASCII range and two bytes for the 8-bit characters, for example accented characters. The typographical quotes you copy will be encoded by three bytes each.

It's worth to upgrade to UTF-8. We're not living in some limited country but in a global village.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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