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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: recoding a buffer coding system
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:24:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tz09hzgu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hbw9m9mb.fsf@uchicago.edu>

> From: Santiago Mejia <mejia@uchicago.edu>
> Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:31:40 -0500
> 
> (switch-to-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously "http://www.wordreference.com/deen/grun"))
> 
> In the buffer *http www:wordreference.com:80* I see the character that
> firefox displays as "ü" (u with umlaut) as \303\274.

\303\274 is the UTF-8 representation of ü.  I'm guessing that the
buffer where it is displayed as \303\274 is a unibyte buffer.

> As I said, however, if I merely save and reopen the file, the characters
> get shown properly.

Does it help to say "M-: (set-buffer-multibyte t) RET"?





  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-15 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-14 21:31 recoding a buffer coding system Santiago Mejia
2009-08-15  6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-15 14:31   ` Santiago Mejia
2009-08-15 15:15     ` Peter Dyballa
2009-08-16  2:29       ` Santiago Mejia
2009-08-16  2:55         ` Peter Dyballa
2009-08-16  3:17           ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-16 13:49             ` Santiago Mejia
2009-08-16 17:06               ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-16 21:09             ` Peter Dyballa
2009-08-15 15:24     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-08-16  2:33       ` Santiago Mejia
2009-08-15  8:26 ` Peter Dyballa

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