From: Gregory Sharp <gregsharp.geo@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Garbage display when NULL in file
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 08:08:56 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <846505.29560.qm@web32003.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
> > In my current debian emacs (22.2.1), emacs seems to be incorrectly
> > detecting the codeset for files with mixed ascii/data. The problem
> > is that I get a garbage display (squares, kanji, etc.). How can
> > I tell emacs not to detect the codeset (or revert to ascii/utf8
> > after it autodetects)?
>
> C-x RET c us-ascii RET C-x C-x your-file RET
>
> Does this do what you want?
Yes! Thank you for the hint. The following also works:
C-x RET c utf-8 RET C-x C-f your-file RET
Why doesn't emacs use utf-8 (my locale codeset) for this file?
Can I make this behavior the default?
--
Greg Sharp
gregsharp@geocities.com
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2009-03-08 15:08 Gregory Sharp [this message]
2009-03-08 19:15 ` Garbage display when NULL in file Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-09 1:19 ` Samuel Wales
2009-03-09 4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2009-03-08 23:26 ` Miles Bader
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2009-03-07 16:27 Gregory Sharp
2009-03-07 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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