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From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: switch between utf-8 and latin-1 (ARGH!!)
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:54:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5wdcztb.fsf@galatea.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lyr8m.2496$vm5.1802@tornado.fastwebnet.it

?manu* <paolNOini@math.SPAMunifi.it> writes:

> Anselm Helbig ha scritto:
>> You don't need another editor to do that. Just try to understand what
>> emacs is doing here: when you added the line about the coding system
>> emacs understood that you want the contents of the buffer saved with
>> this coding system. Emacs can not know that the characters on screen
>> are not what you want! So you first have to get to the point where
>> Emacs has the correct notion about the coding system. Pascal already
>> pointed you to `set-buffer-file-coding-system', 
>
> This was not useful because it does not change the meaning of the
> caracters in the buffer. It only changes the encoding of the
> characters when saving to file.

Normally, you would have checked the user manual, and on the page
about set-buffer-file-coding-system, you would have seen the
description of universal-coding-system-argument...

(info "(emacs)Text Coding")


    File: emacs,  Node: Text Coding

    27.11 Specifying a Coding System for File Text
    ==============================================
    ...


>> another way is to use
>> `universal-coding-system-argument' (C-x RET c) immediately before
>> opening a file.
>
> ...yes this was the right command to use...
>
> thanks,
> 	E.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-18 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-18 17:44 switch between utf-8 and latin-1 ?manu*
2009-07-18 17:59 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-07-18 19:06   ` switch between utf-8 and latin-1 (ARGH!!) ?manu*
2009-07-18 19:39     ` Anselm Helbig
2009-07-18 21:57       ` ?manu*
2009-07-18 23:54         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2009-07-19  6:32           ` ?manu*

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