From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters in auto-save files Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:21:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340667499 10004 80.91.229.3 (25 Jun 2012 23:38:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:38:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 26 01:38:19 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SjIrI-0001xO-3t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:38:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43086 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SjIeh-0002y6-2z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:25:15 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe23.iad.POSTED!00000000!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:i4hDcpN5xJy5YtpNkWMYBMpUv78= Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@UsenetServer.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:21:37 UTC X-Received-Bytes: 1315 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193074 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85469 Archived-At: > - Can Emacs be persuaded to to encode auto-save files in a more useful > manner ? No. Auto-save files are encoded using Emacs's internal coding-system, which makes the operation a lot more reliable and efficient (no need to worry about the case where some char(s) can't be encoded, for example). > - Is there a systematic way to convert #myfile# to iso-latin-9 (or > iso-latin-1) code, other than painstakingly searching and replacing > offending chars ? Just open the file with the right coding-system (typically, opening "myfile" and then hitting M-x recover-this-file RET should do the trick). Stefan