From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: coding problem char \217 etc Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:33:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ftw1t99r.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <8336s1ukp9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1542382394 30625 195.159.176.226 (16 Nov 2018 15:33:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 15:33:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 16 16:33:10 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gNg7K-0007ta-8S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:33:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45357 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNg9Q-0002gM-SP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:35:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48054) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNg7c-0001T5-S2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:33:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNg7Z-0007Lk-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:33:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38432 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNg7Z-0007LM-HP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 10:33:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gNg5R-0005I7-5G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:31:13 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:YQrWXIaz3YwbeJV3WaDSkGozeIU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231189 Archived-At: > 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