From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jasonr (Jason Rumney) @ f2s.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to change file coding system Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:23:28 +0100 Organization: freedom2surf Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124832525 24062 80.91.229.2 (23 Aug 2005 21:28:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:28:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 23 23:28:37 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7gHq-0001pw-PL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:26:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7gLd-0003Bz-LT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:30:21 -0400 Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!news.usc.edu!news-out.nuthinbutnews.com!spool6-east.superfeed.net!propagator-sterling.newsfeeds.com!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!news.freedom2surf.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-X-Trace: news.freedom2surf.net 1124832280 19355 83.67.23.108 (23 Aug 2005 21:24:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@freedom2surf.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:24:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: .PruP48JRO{Z6Rfz?YkZ>)zR+7!Up"`!1Cvq{fGd)@K; y]C:8r\CrJ^Mj\_U"9*WD2 I#zdK_#tw]y9*Y$?ge&b23Zt7zpknL{)F7Px4DVSY6b9dg[^VtkN-R_$YJ0cL''j[, }O#k{k| User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dmWrgx6qz4NOvn3V1xuETFGCIK4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:133411 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:28942 Archived-At: Martin Monsorno writes: > Sure! I should have said that I tried many ways /including/ the one > suggested by you. When emacs asks me what coding system to use after > pressing C-x c, the default it suggests (in parentheses on the > modeline) is "mule-utf-8". After opening it your way, > buffer-file-coding-system's value is raw-text-unix, nevertheless. In the Options menu, there is a submenu "Mule (Multilingual Environment)". At the bottom of that submenu is "Show All of Mule Status". If you select that, what does the "Multibyte character awareness" under the General Information section near the top say?