From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: coding systems for reading files
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:21:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sikxeez9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140815161150.GA8057@doriath.local>
> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 18:11:50 +0200
> From: Ernest Adrogué <nfdisco@gmail.com>
>
> Say that when opening an existing file I want to try first with iso-latin-1
> and if this fails try windows-1252. How does one tell Emacs to do that? If
> I do
>
> (set-coding-system-priority 'windows-1252)
> (set-coding-system-priority 'latin-1)
Since windows-1252 is a superset of latin-1, why does this make sense?
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2014-08-15 16:11 coding systems for reading files Ernest Adrogué
2014-08-15 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-08-15 20:57 ` Ernest Adrogué
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