Re: foreign characters

[prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com>]

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:
>
>> what can i do to have emacs substitute the correct letter representation
>> instead of looking at \351?
>
> 1- ask the remote to send you UTF-8.  It's the de-facto norm.
>
> 2.1- save the file as raw-text: C-x RET c raw-text reT C-x C-w file.txt RET
> 2.2- kill the buffer. C-x k
> 2.3- open the file in the right encoding: C-x RET c RIGHT-ENCODING C-x C-f file.txt RET
>
> Now the problem of course is to know what's the right encoding! :-)
> There are a lot of encodings where \351 <-> é.  But you may try
> iso-8859-1 to start with.  (That said they don't use iso-8859-1 on
> MS-Windows).
>
thx for all this pascal! i didn't know about any of this stuff.
thx to you too peter because i tried some of the encoding you'd sent as
well as what's above.

so i'm in much better shape now and am understanding this area more than
i did before.

-- 
in friendship,
prad