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: utf-16 Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:16:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400253454 21325 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2014 15:17:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 15:17:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 16 17:17:27 2014 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 1WlJt0-0004pj-6c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 17:17:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlJsz-0002zV-Of for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:17:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52210) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlJsd-0002oD-FP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:17:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlJsW-00015W-1S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51143) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlJsV-00015S-RI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:16:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WlJsR-0003MC-Dd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 17:16:51 +0200 Original-Received: from 23-91-155-216.cpe.pppoe.ca ([23.91.155.216]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 17:16:51 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 23-91-155-216.cpe.pppoe.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 16 May 2014 17:16:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 23-91-155-216.cpe.pppoe.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BLI3NDYkVkzJqUQ8nROhBfrAyew= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:97706 Archived-At: > I have a file with marker "# -*- utf-16 -*- in line 1. [ This is a problematic case in itself: to read the "-*- utf-16 -*-" Emacs needs to know what byte-sequence represents, say, the character "u". But at that time (when decoding the file), it can't know yet that it will end up saying say "u" is encoded using utf-16. ] > Is there any variable which influences the interpretation of > "utf-16" ? General rule: don't use "-*- coding: utf-16 -*-". Better use C-x RET f utf-16-le-with-signature RET before writing the file. Stefan