Re: desktop and encodings

[Mads Jensen <spam@raptus.dk>]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
[snip]

> So, to conclude: your Emacs obviously saves your input as UTF-8, and you
> have to make the buffer display in UTF-8 too! The correct headers would
> look like
> 
> 	;;; -*- mode: Text; coding: utf-8; -*-

Yeah, just found out about that; it really makes everything a whole lot
easier. 

> Once you have the file opened in the wrong encoding you can change that
> with revert-buffer-with-coding-system, C-x RET r utf-8 RET.

Thanks. There are so many things about Emacs, that I'm unfamiliar with,
so it's great learning about new stuff :-)

> (prefer-coding-system     'utf-8-unix)

I have both a (prefer-coding-system ...) for latin-1 and unicode, and
they appear to help a lot. Anyways, thanks!

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