From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs file encoding choices: with-signature? Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:24:52 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8f29c761-c019-47b0-b826-024498a649b1@d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> References: 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 1248655841 5323 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2009 00:50:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:50:41 +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 Jul 27 02:50:34 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 1MVEQD-0000Yp-Az for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:50:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42710 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MVEQC-0006qI-V7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:50:33 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1248643498 22739 127.0.0.1 (26 Jul 2009 21:24:58 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:24:58 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d9g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.37 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171222 comp.emacs:98468 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:48:35 -0400 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:66414 Archived-At: On Jul 26, 11:52 am, Xah Lee wrote: > when using set-buffer-file-coding-system > (emacs 23), i get the following choices with utf-8: > > Possible completions are: > utf-8-auto utf-8-auto-dos > utf-8-auto-mac utf-8-auto-unix > utf-8-dos utf-8-emacs > utf-8-emacs-dos utf-8-emacs-mac > utf-8-emacs-unix utf-8-mac > utf-8-unix utf-8-with-signature > utf-8-with-signature-dos utf-8-with-signature-mac > utf-8-with-signature-unix > > what is the "with-signature" mean? is it the unicode BOM marker? > and what about "emacs"? Is that the emacs 22's internal encoding > system? I got the answer. Just do list-coding-systems and result will answer with short description. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84