'-u:--' in mode line

'-u:--' in mode line

[mashrur.mia]

Hello All,

Newbie question.

What is meaning of '-u:--' in mode line? This is displayed for the
scratch buffer. Does this u mean Unicode encoding? if so, is scratch
buffer encoded in unicode? If so, how I see the encoding of other
buffers?

thanks

Re: '-u:--' in mode line

[B. T. Raven]

mashrur.mia@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Newbie question.
> 
> What is meaning of '-u:--' in mode line? This is displayed for the
> scratch buffer. Does this u mean Unicode encoding? if so, is scratch
> buffer encoded in unicode? If so, how I see the encoding of other
> buffers?
> 
> thanks
> 


Yes. Probably utf-8 or one of its synonyms. If you type C-h i m emacs m mode 
line you will see the format:
"
Normally, the mode line looks like this:

      -CS:CH  BUF      (MAJOR MINOR)--LINE--POS------
"

cs is coding system and ch is edit status. If you make a change, the two 
hyphens after the colon will CHange to **

Ed

Re: '-u:--' in mode line

[Tyler Smith]

On 2007-05-14, mashrur.mia@gmail.com <mashrur.mia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Newbie question.
>
> What is meaning of '-u:--' in mode line? This is displayed for the
> scratch buffer. Does this u mean Unicode encoding? if so, is scratch
> buffer encoded in unicode? If so, how I see the encoding of other
> buffers?
>

Hi,

This is explained in the emacs manual:

C-h i m emacs <ret> m mode line <ret>

will get you started.

HTH,

Tyler

Re: '-u:--' in mode line

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.05.2007 um 18:10 schrieb mashrur.mia@gmail.com:

> If so, how I see the encoding of other buffers?

	M-x list-coding-system RET

or

	M-x mule-diag RET

can show all the possible abbreviations for the coding systems used  
for buffers.

--
Greetings

   Pete

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