Re: specifying coding system on the first/second line

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc>]

On Tue, Oct 11 2005, Radomir Hejl wrote:

> On the second line of my file I have the following text:
> # -*- coding: utf-8;-*-
> The first line is an interpreter command.
[...]
> What should I fix to remedy this?

,----[ (info "(emacs)File Variables") ]
|    In shell scripts, the first line is used to identify the script
| interpreter, so you cannot put any local variables there.  To
| accommodate for this, when Emacs visits a shell script, it looks for
| local variable specifications in the _second_ line.
| 
|    A "local variables list" goes near the end of the file, in the last
| page.  (It is often best to put it on a page by itself.)  The local
| variables list starts with a line containing the string `Local
| Variables:', and ends with a line containing the string `End:'.  In
| between come the variable names and values, one set per line, as
| `VARIABLE: VALUE'.  The VALUEs are not evaluated; they are used
| literally.  If a file has both a local variables list and a `-*-' line,
| Emacs processes _everything_ in the `-*-' line first, and _everything_
| in the local variables list afterward.
| 
|    Here is an example of a local variables list: [...]
`----

Example:

# Local Variables: 
# coding: utf-8
# End: 

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