From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Monsorno Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to change file coding system Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:26:13 +0200 Organization: Schlund + Partner AG Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124270871 32111 80.91.229.2 (17 Aug 2005 09:27:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:27:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 17 11:27:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5KC7-00050y-05 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:26:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5KFZ-0007pz-IP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Aug 2005 05:30:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!news.belwue.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.schlund.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p7223e3d4.np.gmx.net Original-X-Trace: schlund.de 1124270727 28210 212.227.35.114 (17 Aug 2005 09:25:27 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@schlund.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:25:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:133247 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:28774 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28774 Eli Zaretskii writes: > When you open bla.eclipse with Emacs, did you tell Emacs that it was a > UTF-8 encoded file? That is, did you say > > C-x RET c utf-8 RET C-x C-f bla.eclipse > > or did you use "C-x C-f" as usual? If the latter, I'm guessing that > Emacs thought it was an ISO-8859 encoded file (because it cannot > easily distinguish between these 2 encodings), and thus your > subsequent C-x RET f had no effect at all. I tried many ways of opening the file, with no noticable difference. Some details are in my followup to Peter's posting. -- Martin