Problem reading Latin-1 and UTF-8 encoded files on Carbon Emacs (Mac OS X)

Problem reading Latin-1 and UTF-8 encoded files on Carbon Emacs (Mac OS X)

[Frank Sonnemans]

I am having trouble getting Carbonized Emacs to display UTF-8 and windows
Latin-1 encoded files. Basically I am moving contacts from the Apple
Address Book to the bbdb database. The address book supports amongst
other things UTF-8 or Windows Latin-1 encoding for the exported
vcards.

Loading them into emacs gives a lot of @ characters in an unreadable
text. I tried setting the encoding manually before loading the file,
but nothing seems to help. 

I'm even wondering of my emacs version supports these encodings.

Emacs Version: 21.3
OS: Mac OS X 10.2

Any help is greatly apreciated.

Frank

Re: Problem reading Latin-1 and UTF-8 encoded files on Carbon Emacs (Mac OS X)

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Aug 29 2003, Frank Sonnemans wrote:

> The address book supports amongst other things UTF-8 or Windows
> Latin-1

What do you mean with "Windows Latin-1"?  Latin-1=iso-8859-1 or
Windows Codepage 1252 (M$ extension to iso-8859-1), see
<URL:http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1252.htm>?

> encoding for the exported vcards.
[...]
> I'm even wondering of my emacs version supports these encodings.
>
> Emacs Version: 21.3

Your header says Emacs/21.3.50, i.e. CVS version (!= Emacs 21.3
release).  After (require 'code-pages) (not "codepages" without the
"-"), Emacs/21.3.50 provides a windows-1252 coding system:

,----[ C-h C windows-1252 RET ]
| * -- windows-1252 (alias: cp1252)
| 
| windows-1252 encoding
| 
| Type: 4 (do conversion by CCL program)
| EOL type: Automatic selection from:
| 	[windows-1252-unix windows-1252-dos windows-1252-mac]
`----

> OS: Mac OS X 10.2

I guess this is platform independent.

Bye, Reiner.
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