Re: switch between utf-8 and latin-1

[pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)]

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

> . what method does emacs use to guess the encoding of a text file?
>
> . what is the command to tell emacs that the file in the buffer is
>   utf-8 instead of latin-1?

M-x set-buffer-file-coding-system
(Usually bound to C-x RET f)


> . is it possible to insert some text in the file (in comments)
> to tell emacs which encoding to use?

Insert the coding File Variable:

Put:  -*- coding:utf-8; -*-
on one of the first two lines,

or put:

Local Variables:
coding: utf-8
End:

in the last 512 bytes of the file.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__