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: How to determine encoding for file? Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:58:23 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264474769 4439 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2010 02:59:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:59:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 26 03:59:21 2010 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 1NZbeC-0000c0-Dg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:59:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52438 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NZbeD-0004Di-MP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:59:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NZbdq-0004Bx-6i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:58:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NZbdl-00048e-8I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:58:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52545 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NZbdl-00048K-1A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:58:53 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43516) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NZbdk-000577-If for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:58:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NZbde-0000TY-ME for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:58:46 +0100 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:58:46 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:58:46 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:71460 Archived-At: 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