From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters in auto-save files
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:52:41 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <552e854a-1277-4170-b315-55458d69d622@f8g2000pbf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvd34n9dyt.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org
On Jun 25, 4:21 pm, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > - Can Emacs be persuaded to to encode auto-save files in a more useful
> > manner ?
>
> No. Auto-save files are encoded using Emacs's internal coding-system,
> which makes the operation a lot more reliable and efficient (no need to
> worry about the case where some char(s) can't be encoded, for example).
i thought emacs 23/24 uses a superset of utf-8 as internal encoding?
so that i thought those #autosave# files are encoded in utf-8, and as
long as one open them with utf-8 decoding all chars would show. Is
this not correct?
(i turned of auto-save and auto backup few years ago)
Xah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-27 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.3448.1340636607.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-25 23:21 ` non-ASCII characters in auto-save files Stefan Monnier
2012-06-26 10:13 ` grivet
2012-06-26 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-27 11:52 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2012-06-27 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.3571.1340815454.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-27 20:03 ` Xah Lee
2012-06-28 1:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-28 2:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-25 12:46 grivet
2012-06-25 16:56 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.3451.1340643405.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-25 22:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-06-25 23:11 ` Peter Dyballa
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