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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems displaying utf-8-characters after reload
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:49:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k3v89pvk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k4fslu014h6@news6.newsguy.com>

> From: "B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net>
> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:17:18 -0500
> 
> Why aren't the following exactly synonymous (as the descriptions would
> lead us to believe):
> 
> C-x RET c latin-1 RET C-x C-f
> C-x RET f latin-1 RET

The second one changes how the buffer will be _encoded_ when saved to
disk next time you type "C-x C-s".  The former one changes how the
file will be _decoded_ when you visit it.  IOW, the second one can
change nothing in how Emacs interprets the file while reading it into
the buffer.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-03  3:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-24 19:23 problems displaying utf-8-characters after reload LanX
2012-09-24 20:18 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-09-24 21:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.9672.1348520546.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-10-02 23:17   ` B. T. Raven
2012-10-03  3:49     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-10-03  7:09       ` Andreas Röhler
2012-10-03 17:22         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-03 19:34           ` Andreas Röhler
2012-10-04  5:41           ` Andreas Röhler

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