Hello,
I write a lot of text under WinXP/Emacs/Latex, in
French. For some unknown reason, emacs sometimes crashes
and
I am left with an auto-save file, say #myfile#.
My problem is that, in such a file, all non ASCII
characters are mangled. I can open #myfile# in Emacs, but
accented e's, for instance,
appear as \303\250 or as \201\250 and similarly for all
accented letters.
If I try to save #myfile# to disk, Emacs telles me it
cannot encode these characters. Here is the answer I get
when I do C-uC-x = on one
of the offending chars:
c-u c-x =
character: (4194216, #o17777650, #x3fffa8)
preferred charset: eight-bit (Raw bytes 128-255)
code point: 0xA8
syntax: w which means: word
buffer code: #xA8
file code: not encodable by coding system
emacs-mule-unix
display: no font available
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 ?
Thanks in advance for your time and help
JP Grivet