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From: "Ernest Adrogué" <nfdisco@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: coding systems for reading files
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:57:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140815205718.GA9319@doriath.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sikxeez9.fsf@gnu.org>

2014-08-15, 22:21 (+0300); Eli Zaretskii escriu:
> > Say that when opening an existing file I want to try first with iso-latin-1
> > and if this fails try windows-1252.  How does one tell Emacs to do that?  If
> > I do
> > 
> > (set-coding-system-priority 'windows-1252)
> > (set-coding-system-priority 'latin-1)
> 
> Since windows-1252 is a superset of latin-1, why does this make sense?

Good question.  I guess it doesn't make sense.




      reply	other threads:[~2014-08-15 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-15 16:11 coding systems for reading files Ernest Adrogué
2014-08-15 19:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-15 20:57   ` Ernest Adrogué [this message]

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