From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: recoding a buffer coding system Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:24:33 +0300 Message-ID: <83tz09hzgu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zla29j5p.fsf@uchicago.edu> <833a7tk2hb.fsf@gnu.org> <87hbw9m9mb.fsf@uchicago.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250349915 24150 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2009 15:25:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:25:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 15 17:25:08 2009 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 4.50) id 1McL80-0000Iy-4E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:25:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54184 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1McL7y-0008Qy-Ug for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1McL7Z-0008OT-4g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:24:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1McL7Y-0008No-6x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51362 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1McL7Y-0008Ne-3S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]:63930) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1McL7X-0000FO-Ix for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:24:39 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout3.012.net.il by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KOF00600BBMNX00@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:24:29 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.127.190]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KOF00A45C4QDZI0@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:24:27 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87hbw9m9mb.fsf@uchicago.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:67175 Archived-At: > From: Santiago Mejia > Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:31:40 -0500 >=20 > (switch-to-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously "http://www.wordrefer= ence.com/deen/grun")) >=20 > In the buffer *http www:wordreference.com:80* I see the character t= hat > firefox displays as "=C3=BC" (u with umlaut) as \303\274. \303\274 is the UTF-8 representation of =C3=BC. I'm guessing that th= e 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 chara= cters > get shown properly. Does it help to say "M-: (set-buffer-multibyte t) RET"?