Re: coding problem char \217 etc

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> One way of avoiding the manual specification of the encoding is to use
> the coding: tag inside the file, either on the first line or in the
> file-local variables.

Note that in his examples he has:

    \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} 

which Emacs normally recognizes the indicate that the file uses latin-1
(which is actually a lie in this case, tho that lie might only affect
comments, so it's not a complete lie).

Nowadays, the better bet is to use utf-8 (which is is much easier to
auto-detect and doesn't have umpteen extensions like latin-1 has).


        Stefan