From: prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: foreign characters
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 20:49:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqaf8h7o.fsf@psinom.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87aa1jfyuo.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com
"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
> prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:
>
>> what can i do to have emacs substitute the correct letter representation
>> instead of looking at \351?
>
> 1- ask the remote to send you UTF-8. It's the de-facto norm.
>
> 2.1- save the file as raw-text: C-x RET c raw-text reT C-x C-w file.txt RET
> 2.2- kill the buffer. C-x k
> 2.3- open the file in the right encoding: C-x RET c RIGHT-ENCODING C-x C-f file.txt RET
>
> Now the problem of course is to know what's the right encoding! :-)
> There are a lot of encodings where \351 <-> é. But you may try
> iso-8859-1 to start with. (That said they don't use iso-8859-1 on
> MS-Windows).
>
thx for all this pascal! i didn't know about any of this stuff.
thx to you too peter because i tried some of the encoding you'd sent as
well as what's above.
so i'm in much better shape now and am understanding this area more than
i did before.
--
in friendship,
prad
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2012-05-07 21:46 ` foreign characters Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-05-08 3:49 ` prad [this message]
2012-05-13 11:04 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2012-05-07 21:08 prad
2012-05-07 21:48 ` Peter Dyballa
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