From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: Mikael Djurfeldt <mikael@djurfeldt.com>
Subject: How to select the default coding system
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:05:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2XvwLMZEwnR0FcVHFqV-Lu8ebzXjuuYxnej_DpgB1aLbuVyw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Dear all,
I just got a question from a beginner Emacs user how to set the default
coding system. For some reason, he didn't get utf-8 by default (which he
wanted). He might have touched some setting which caused this.
Now, I'm myself an experienced Emacs user and once did have a complete
overview of Emacs functionality. But the multi-lingual envorpnment, coding
systems etc is new to me.
Trying to find the answer to this users question, I realized that the
complexity is too large even for me (elisp programmer) to find an answer in
reasonable time.
I started out browsing options in the GUI, trying to find an option for the
default coding system. I *did* find some coding system options under
"mule", but nothing which seemed to fit.
In the manual I found a function "prefer-coding-system", which I gather one
could place in .emacs.
Q: What is the natural way to specify the default coding system,
preferrably using the GUI (to facilitate things for this novel user).
Best regards,
Mikael D.
next reply other threads:[~2014-09-17 14:05 UTC|newest]
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2014-09-17 14:05 Mikael Djurfeldt [this message]
2014-09-18 2:46 ` How to select the default coding system Eli Zaretskii
2014-09-21 1:13 ` Grant Rettke
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