From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Encoding.. Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:43:23 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <40D72C4B.9030900@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088537404 23112 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 19:30:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:30:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 21:29:47 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfOId-0006qE-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:29:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfOKI-0008CS-QX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:31:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!news.mailgate.org!newsfeed.stueberl.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 8YJ2LjJCujIX8tW/M5obDQ/Q9c7Oe9Wxq5ABuZ9+MMJixxOzA= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123878 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19239 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19239 Rob Kramer wrote: > I'm doing some testing with a program that needs to be made aware of UTF-8. > Now, when I cut & paste a good UTF-8 byte string to some other document > (my .cc file to be precise), that string is converted to something else > when I save and check with od. > > How can I disable all forms of multi-language encoding/converting so I can > test in peace without fear of my strings becoming translated to something > else? Start Emacs with the --unibyte option or set the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable (see the "Initial Options" and "Enabling Multibyte" nodes of the Emacs manual); or Set selection-coding-system to 'no-conversion or 'raw-text (see the "Specify Coding" node of the Emacs manual). -- Kevin Rodgers