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> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 02:12:00 -0800 (PST)
> From: kovvalsky <fibo.kowalsky@gmail.com>
> Cc: 
> 
> Thank you very much. I guess this saves file, but I wanted for sorting so
> Is it correct for sorting?

No, I don't think so.  Encoding only matters for importing text into
Emacs or exporting it to the outer world (disk files, other processes,
etc.).  Once text is inside an Emacs buffer, it uses the same encoding,
which is the internal Emacs representation of characters (an extension
of UTF-8).