From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: reading a file Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:24:14 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84smwr86j5.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040502321 27050 80.91.224.249 (21 Dec 2002 20:25:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 20:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18PqBN-000720-00 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:25:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18PqBf-0005Xk-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:25:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9e1e6ce.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1e6ce.dip.t-dialin.net (217.225.230.206) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1040502254 3900421 217.225.230.206 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LmQCBuoyagYdF6xTCI3HjIu2te0= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108407 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4936 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4936 Luca Ferrari writes: > I've got a problem during an open file operation. I'm opening a file that > includes semigraphics chars, like those into the mule-XXXX char set. If the > file has been created from emacs, all is right, but if the file is older (and > not created by emacs) the semigraphics chars are not displayed correctly. You can use C-x RET c, then enter a coding system, then (immediately thereafter) C-x C-f, to open the file. I have no idea which coding system is the right one -- maybe you can show examples? Maybe an output from hexdump or od... -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)