From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: prad Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: foreign characters Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 14:08:58 -0700 Message-ID: <87ipg7aec5.fsf@psinom.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336424967 858 80.91.229.3 (7 May 2012 21:09:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 21:09:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 07 23:09:26 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 1SRVBO-0003Ls-Cj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 23:09:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41162 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRVBN-0001SN-Mc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 17:09:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57398) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRVBH-0001SG-RC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 17:09:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRVBG-0007ZY-6e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 17:09:19 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53845) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SRVBG-0007YV-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 17:09:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SRVBE-0003KG-RS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 23:09:16 +0200 Original-Received: from s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net ([70.67.174.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 May 2012 23:09:16 +0200 Original-Received: from prad by s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 May 2012 23:09:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VQEGVt0evBX3U4OlajE+c9ZrlJU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:84761 Archived-At: sometimes people send me stuff with characters in different languages which show up like \351 (acute e), from evil windoze systems. when i save the file, emacs says that these items are not encodable with message like this: ==== These default coding systems were tried to encode text in the buffer `tmp.html': (utf-8-unix (3464 . 4194181) (6020 . 4194281) (14957 . 4194181) (15010 . 4194181) (16070 . 4194181) (16310 . 4194181) (16363 . 4194181) (16659 . 4194181) (18246 . 4194181) (18988 . 4194181) (19990 . 4194193)) However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode: utf-8-unix cannot encode these: … é … … … … … … … … ... Click on a character (or switch to this window by `M-x other-window' and select the characters by RET) to jump to the place it appears, where `C-u C-x =' will give information about it. Select one of the safe coding systems listed below, or cancel the writing with C-g and edit the buffer ==== so if i push tab a whole list of different languages coding systems come up. i tried picking mule-unix one, but the character still stays as \351 or \205 or whatever (though the file saves). what can i do to have emacs substitute the correct letter representation instead of looking at \351? -- in friendship, prad