From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters in auto-save files Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:52:41 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <552e854a-1277-4170-b315-55458d69d622@f8g2000pbf.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340798115 26052 80.91.229.3 (27 Jun 2012 11:55:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:55:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 27 13:55:15 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sjqq2-0003Yi-EL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:55:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60799 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sjqq2-0004jX-BL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:55:14 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f8g2000pbf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1340797962 9196 127.0.0.1 (27 Jun 2012 11:52:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f8g2000pbf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.56 Safari/536.5,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193116 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85511 Archived-At: On Jun 25, 4:21=A0pm, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > =A0 =A0 - Can Emacs be persuaded to to encode auto-save files in a more= useful > > manner ? > > No. =A0Auto-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