Saving in Latin1 with emacs

Saving in Latin1 with emacs

[David Rasmussen]

I have a file containing text in some weird encoding. 'file' says:

Non-ISO extended-ASCII English text, with very long lines, with CRLF, 
NEL line terminators

Basically, I want to convert this text to Latin1. I have tried recode 
and iconv assuming the text was utf-8, but they both claim that it is 
not utf-8. Maybe it is a mix of several encodings? I don't know.

But my idea is this: emacs seems to be able to _show_ the file just 
fine, regardless of whatever encoding it is. So I'm thinking: It must be 
able to save this file in Latin1.

How do I do that?

/David

Re: Saving in Latin1 with emacs

[David Kastrup]

David Rasmussen <david.rasmussen@gmx.net> writes:

> I have a file containing text in some weird encoding. 'file' says:
> 
> Non-ISO extended-ASCII English text, with very long lines, with CRLF,
> NEL line terminators
> 
> Basically, I want to convert this text to Latin1. I have tried recode
> and iconv assuming the text was utf-8, but they both claim that it is
> not utf-8. Maybe it is a mix of several encodings? I don't know.
> 
> But my idea is this: emacs seems to be able to _show_ the file just
> fine, regardless of whatever encoding it is. So I'm thinking: It must
> be able to save this file in Latin1.
> 
> How do I do that?

C-x C-m f latin1 RET

And then you save.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Saving in Latin1 with emacs

[Jesper Harder]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> C-x C-m f latin1 RET
            ^^^^^^
            latin-1

Re: Saving in Latin1 with emacs

[David Rasmussen]

Jesper Harder wrote:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>C-x C-m f latin1 RET
> 
>             ^^^^^^
>             latin-1

Thanks to both of you!

/David