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: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:40:50 +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 1124357945 9578 80.91.229.2 (18 Aug 2005 09:39:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:39:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 18 11:39:00 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5gqg-0005kl-JG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:38:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5guC-000759-3H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:41:48 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.schlund.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p7223e3d4.np.gmx.net Original-X-Trace: schlund.de 1124354403 12423 212.227.35.114 (18 Aug 2005 08:40:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@schlund.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:40:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:133287 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:28813 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28813 Peter Dyballa writes: >> I think I understood this. But this means that I can change the >> file-encoding of a file with emacs, doesn't it? > > Yes. I Usually revert buffer from file with new encoding, C-x RET r > RET and save the file in that encoding. I'd say it works > reliably! (I suppose you mean C-x RET f ...) Lucky guy, my problem is, it doesn't seem to work for me :-( >> What I cite in my mails are the strings as emacs shows them to me when >> loading one of the files. So the question is, /why/ are they not >> UTF-8? Does eclipse do a wrong latin-1 to utf-8 conversion? >> > > I don't know and use Eclipse. Test is with its own documentation -- and > some reliably encoded files! Meanwhile I found out how to specify the encoding of a file in eclipse (prior to loading), which leads to correctly encoded files (latin1 and utf-8). What remains is the problem with emacs and UTF-8 files. -- Martin