From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Michel Chassey <mycuser@gmail.com>
Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: data files littered with \234\456 instead of accented chars
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:32:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11890A42-D227-4050-A462-F6246F798BB5@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1364476502289-282192.post@n5.nabble.com>
Am 28.03.2013 um 14:15 schrieb Michel Chassey:
> When I try to save the file it asks for a coding system.
It's not possible to have \234\456 – \456 is not possible in octal notation. The presence of pairs similar to those makes it likely that you have an UTF-8 encoded text…
You can set in your environment the variables LANG or LC_CTYPE to point to an UTF-8 based encoding.
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Pete
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2013-03-28 13:15 data files littered with \234\456 instead of accented chars Michel Chassey
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