From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: displaying escaped unicode files Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:12:47 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <6269354.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158084873 32253 80.91.229.2 (12 Sep 2006 18:14:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:14:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 12 20:14:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNCly-0003Yw-D4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:14:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNClx-0005dV-Rq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:14:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNClk-0005d8-G2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:14:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNClj-0005cY-7O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:14:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNClj-0005cU-0b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:13:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GNCnG-00016o-Kt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:15:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GNClV-0003Sm-T5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:13:45 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:13:45 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:13:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: <6269354.post@talk.nabble.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37311 Archived-At: Gulliver7 wrote: > Hi. I'm using emacs as a text editor (I'm not a programmer), and need some > advice: > > I'm running emacs 21.3 in Windows, and need to read and edit some text files > with UTF-8 encoding and others with escaped unicode encoding. I've managed > to get emacs to display the UTF-8 files correctly, but not the escaped > unicode ones. The alphabet is Latin, but accented characters are not being > displayed properly in the escaped unicode files. What do I need to do to > get emacs to display the characters properly, regardless of whether I go > into a UTF-8 or an escaped unicode file? > > I have to say, I don't really understand what what the coding means -- all I > know is that I have these files to work with and want to use emacs to edit > them. I'd appreciate any help. What is an "escaped unicode" file? Can you attach a small sample file to your reply? -- Kevin