Specify file encoding when storing a plain text or a source code

Specify file encoding when storing a plain text or a source code

[kovvalsky]

How do you specify file encoding when storing a plain text or a source code
in emacs?
-
thank you in advance.
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Re: Specify file encoding when storing a plain text or a source code

[Deniz Dogan]

2011/2/1 kovvalsky <fibo.kowalsky@gmail.com>:
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> How do you specify file encoding when storing a plain text or a source code
> in emacs?
> -
> thank you in advance.
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You can use "C-x RET f" (set-buffer-file-coding-system).

If CODING-SYSTEM leaves the text conversion unspecified, or if it leaves
the end-of-line conversion unspecified, FORCE controls what to do.
If FORCE is nil, get the unspecified aspect (or aspects) from the buffer's
previous `buffer-file-coding-system' value (if it is specified there).
Otherwise, leave it unspecified.

This marks the buffer modified so that the succeeding C-t C-s
surely saves the buffer with CODING-SYSTEM.  From a program, if you
don't want to mark the buffer modified, specify t for NOMODIFY.
If you know exactly what coding system you want to use,
just set the variable `buffer-file-coding-system' directly.

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Re: Specify file encoding when storing a plain text or a source code

[kovvalsky]

I am completely beginner in emacs and we have this question to answer (it's
odd yes) and i am not sure if I understand you answer, but thanks.
I think the answer to my question is:
C-x h                                              #select all text
C-x RET c <encoding> RET            #set encoding for next command
M-x sort-lines                                  #sort the text using the
specified encoding



Deniz Dogan-3 wrote:
> 
> You can use "C-x RET f" (set-buffer-file-coding-system).
> 
> If CODING-SYSTEM leaves the text conversion unspecified, or if it leaves
> the end-of-line conversion unspecified, FORCE controls what to do.
> If FORCE is nil, get the unspecified aspect (or aspects) from the buffer's
> previous `buffer-file-coding-system' value (if it is specified there).
> Otherwise, leave it unspecified.
> 
> This marks the buffer modified so that the succeeding C-t C-s
> surely saves the buffer with CODING-SYSTEM.  From a program, if you
> don't want to mark the buffer modified, specify t for NOMODIFY.
> If you know exactly what coding system you want to use,
> just set the variable `buffer-file-coding-system' directly.
> 
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> 

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Re: Specify file encoding when storing a plain text or a source code

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:33:36 -0800 (PST)
> From: kovvalsky <fibo.kowalsky@gmail.com>
> Cc: 
> 
> 
> How do you specify file encoding when storing a plain text or a source code
> in emacs?

C-x RET c <whatever-encoding-you-like> RET C-x C-s

Re: Specify file encoding when storing a plain text or a source code

[kovvalsky]

Thank you very much. I guess this saves file, but I wanted for sorting so
Is it correct for sorting?
C-x h                                              #select all text
C-x RET c <encoding> RET            #set encoding for next command
M-x sort-lines                                  #sort the text using the
specified encoding
and do you know 2 encodings which sort the same text different way?
Just to test my commands.
Thank you.


Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
>> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:33:36 -0800 (PST)
> C-x RET c <whatever-encoding-you-like> RET C-x C-s
> 

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Re: Specify file encoding when storing a plain text or a source code

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 01.02.2011 um 11:12 schrieb kovvalsky:

> and do you know 2 encodings which sort the same text different way?


ISO encodings vs. DOS code pages. But not in the first 7 bit US-ASCII.  
For this use some ISO encoding vs. EBCDIC.

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Re: Specify file encoding when storing a plain text or a source code

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 02:12:00 -0800 (PST)
> From: kovvalsky <fibo.kowalsky@gmail.com>
> Cc: 
> 
> Thank you very much. I guess this saves file, but I wanted for sorting so
> Is it correct for sorting?

No, I don't think so.  Encoding only matters for importing text into
Emacs or exporting it to the outer world (disk files, other processes,
etc.).  Once text is inside an Emacs buffer, it uses the same encoding,
which is the internal Emacs representation of characters (an extension
of UTF-8).