From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: strange error Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:05:28 +1100 Message-ID: References: <4CDDFEE5.10306@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289696944 14446 80.91.229.12 (14 Nov 2010 01:09:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:09:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 14 02:09:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PHR5X-00061y-Sr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:09:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60791 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PHR5X-0000eU-8N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:08:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37654 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PHR5B-0000eJ-KX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:08:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PHR57-00029T-NG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:08:37 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:59423) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PHR57-00029G-Hl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 20:08:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PHR55-0005rS-AO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:08:31 +0100 Original-Received: from sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au ([203.214.67.82]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:08:31 +0100 Original-Received: from daniel by sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:08:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sdcarl02.strategicdata.com.au User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NFOam3+uysg9oFfbTaTQqxiiia4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75376 Archived-At: Rajinder Yadav writes: > Is there a way to force emacs to save in utf-8 ? I was cutting and pasting > code out of emacs and getting strange errors. I then opened up another > editor, pasted in there and then copied out of 2nd editor and pasted the > code and everything was fine, strange error gone! You can change the encoding of a buffer with 'C-x RET f', which invokes `set-buffer-file-coding-system' - that will allow you to set the buffer to UTF-8 or any other supported encoding. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ daniel@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons