>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

   >> One way of avoiding the manual specification of the encoding is to use
   >> the coding: tag inside the file, either on the first line or in the
   >> file-local variables.

   > Note that in his examples he has:

   >     \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} 

   > which Emacs normally recognizes the indicate that the file uses latin-1
   > (which is actually a lie in this case, tho that lie might only affect
   > comments, so it's not a complete lie).

   > Nowadays, the better bet is to use utf-8 (which is is much easier to
   > auto-detect and doesn't have umpteen extensions like latin-1 has).

Yes I know, I tried to delete this line and reopen the file but it did
not help. That is why I asked for the coding. Eli guessed it correctly
and I still don't know how he did it....

Uwe