From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Russell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs utf-8 coding system Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:30:27 -0500 Organization: Cisco Systems Inc. Message-ID: References: <20041224123729.8A68B4C0AA@webmail2.spymac.net> <7eoeerdoss.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108150239 28727 80.91.229.2 (11 Feb 2005 19:30:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 11 20:30:37 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzgUE-0006Tm-DW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:29:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CzgjD-0000sj-Pa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:45:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-11!sn-xit-08!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vbTBQOP/LMsecA9mG/GH40ieXDE= Cache-Post-Path: sj-nntpcache-5!unknown@dhcp-10-86-164-67.cisco.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b2 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 22 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128505 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24037 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24037 Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > John Russell writes: > >> I tried C-x Ret f and a few encodings, but nothing >> seems to change > > it could be that the file is in utf-16le, not utf-8. > try `universal-coding-system-argument' (normally bound > to `C-x RET c'), like so: > > C-x c utf-16le C-x C-f FILENAME This did it, thanks you. reg files are apparently in utf-16-le > > if that works, see also var `file-coding-system-alist'. So now it happens automajically. Thanks agian. John --