From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I do not want to select a coding system Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:17:25 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <610e5869-fddc-4b52-a6f8-16a1cbc937ed@m24g2000prn.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1265327057 29111 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2010 23:44:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:44:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 05 00:44:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NdBMq-00065j-FX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:44:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47191 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NdBMp-0003M0-6R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:44:11 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m24g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.87.221.133 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1265325445 32635 127.0.0.1 (4 Feb 2010 23:17:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 23:17:25 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m24g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=202.87.221.133; posting-account=pYxWjwkAAACsHSUNDoi5N05LVCTP7PVM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-GB; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091216 Iceweasel/3.5.6 (like Firefox/3.5.6; Debian-3.5.6-1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:176624 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:71694 Archived-At: On Feb 5, 6:41=A0am, Bruce Korb wrote: > Every now and then, it becomes completely impossible to save the > contents of a new file I am creating. =A0Emacs demands I select a > coding system and none of them are plain old vanilla ASCII text.. Thats because Emacs only prompts you when there are non-ASCII characters in your file. How can you save non-ASCII characters as ASCII?