From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to determine encoding for file?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:58:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hjllog$475$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hjie4c$e4v$1@reader1.panix.com>
kj wrote:
> I've downloaded a large file that is supposed to contain a mixture
> of Japanese and English (it's basically a learner's dictionary).
> The English is displayed correctly, but not so for the Japanese.
>
> I've tried setting the buffer's coding system to utf-8,
> japanese-shift-jis, japanese-shift-jis-mac, japanese-shift-jis-dos
> (just guessing). None worked.
>
> In fact, I'm not even sure that any of these changes of the coding
> system achieved *anything*, since the buffer's appearance remained
> unchanged throughout all this mucking around. I used the command
> set-buffer-file-coding-system to do this. Should I need to do
> anything besides re-setting the coding system to see a change in
> how the file is displayed?
Use `C-x RET r' (aka M-x revert-buffer-with-coding-system).
> More importantly, is there a better way to determine a file's
> correct coding system besides trial and error?
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-26 2:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-24 21:29 How to determine encoding for file? kj
2010-01-24 21:59 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-01-25 5:57 ` tomas
[not found] ` <mailman.146.1264399148.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-01-25 14:55 ` kj
2010-01-26 9:01 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-01-26 2:58 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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