Re: non-ASCII characters in auto-save files

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 25.06.2012 um 14:46 schrieb grivet:

> I have two questions:
>    - Can Emacs be persuaded to to encode auto-save files in a more useful manner ?
>    - Is there a systematic way to convert #myfile# to iso-latin-9 (or iso-latin-1) code, other than painstakingly
> searching and replacing offending chars ?

I have one answer: use file-local variables!

For example in the header:

	%%% -*- mode: LaTeX; coding: iso-latin-9-unix; -*-

Or in the (AUCTeX) footer:

	%%% Local Variables:
	%%% mode: LaTeX
	%%% fill-column: 99999
	%%% coding: iso-latin-9
	%%% End:
	%

In the header you can combine the coding line with a time-stamp line, updated every time you save the file:

	%%%	Time-stamp: <2012-01-15 16:41:38 pete> 


With C-x RET c <encoding name> RET you can set an encoding to be used when you read and open the auto-save file. You can use the same command to set an encoding for saving the file.

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  Pete

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