From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how do i reset text coding?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 18:51:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r0tqq7o5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8XZFmOWb4J5DQpKkXgOFXLsxWiJZ=cBeQ0uag=HfQqXww@mail.gmail.com> (message from Yuri Khan on Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:30:12 +0700)
> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:30:12 +0700
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 22:22, jimdam, vani <jindam.vani@disroot.org> wrote:
> > . what kind of "numbers" do you see? please show examples
> > file1 screen shot https://ibb.co/kBnGx7P
> > file2 screen shot https://ibb.co/HPxPrZH
>
> On your first screenshot, the mode line shows ‘=’ instead of a ‘U’.
> (info "(emacs) Mode Line") explains:
>
> ‘=’ means no conversion
> whatsoever, and is usually used for files containing non-textual data.
>
> so that’s your issue: somehow, for that buffer, encoding is not set
> correctly.
Yes, exactly.
> (I don’t know why and where to look, so I will leave it to others to
> help you diagnose it.)
The screenshots don't show the entire text, and the text itself wasn't
posted here _as_text_, so it's hard to say. But in any case, you can
do
C-x RET r utf-8 RET
and Emacs will revisit the file with UTF-8 encoding.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-15 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-15 15:21 how do i reset text coding? jimdam, vani
2023-03-15 16:30 ` Yuri Khan
2023-03-15 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-03-16 18:55 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-03-16 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-03-15 18:29 jimdam, vani
2023-03-16 5:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-15 5:43 jindam, vani
2023-03-15 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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