Re: numbers instead of accented letters...

[Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>]

   On Nov 26, 2018, at 1:56, Stefan Monnier <[1]monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
   wrote:

     ;; pour h\303\251riter du $PATH quand Emacs est lanc\303\251 hors de
     la ligne de commande

   Do you also see it if you open the file with `emacs -Q`?
   If so, try the following:
      emacs -Q ~/.emacs.el
      C-x RET r utf-8 RET
   this should re-read the file, but forcing Emacs to interpret it as
   utf-8,
   so presumably, "heriter" should now appear correctly.  Also the left
   part of
   the mode-line should say "U" to mean.
   If that's indeed, the case, then try to save the file (after making
   a trivial modification to it like `SPC DEL`).
   If this works without complaint, check the "U" in the mode-line: is it
   still there?

   Everything worked as you said and indeed the U is still there.
   When I first open the file I get an = where the U should be.
   (emacs manual: "`=' means no conversion whatsoever, and is usually used
   for files containing non-textual data"...)
   So, should I interpret that as emacs is, for some reason, not using
   UTF-8 to read the file ?
   Jean-Christophe Helary
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   [2]http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune

References

   1. mailto:monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
   2. http://mac4translators.blogspot.com/