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: Conversion OEM to ANSI? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:39:59 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205301411 3183 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2008 05:56:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:56:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 06:57:19 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZJxn-0003tO-0W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:57:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZJxE-0000nx-LY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:56:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZJhB-0001WE-Bs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:40:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZJh9-0001VY-47 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZJh8-0001VT-TH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:40:06 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZJh8-0003hv-FW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:40:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JZJh6-000342-I4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:40:04 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:40:04 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:40:04 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:52278 Archived-At: gooliver wrote: > > I've most text-files created with EDIT.EXE in Dos-Window. > Emacs shows wrong characters (à, è, ì...) because > these files are in OEM format. > > How to convert these OEM text-files in ANSI text-files? 1. Tell Emacs how the file is encoded when you visit it. 2. Tell Emacs how you want the file to be encoded when you save it. Read the Fine Manual, starting with the Coding Systems section (under International Character Set Support) through Specifying a Coding System for File Text. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA