Re: switching between locales (esp. iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-15)

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc>]

On Thu, Mar 10 2005, Tapani Tarvainen wrote:

> In particular, I frequently have to deal with files in ISO-8859-1
> and ISO-8859-15 codings, and while emacs is perfectly able to
> display either correctly if it starts with the right foot, er,
> with correct locale, I can't figure out how to make it change
> its opinion of the encoding once it has opened the file.

`C-x RET c NEWCODING-SYSTEM RET C-x C-v RET'

Emacs 22 will have a more simple command for this task:

,----[ `C-h k C-x RET r' ]
| C-x RET r runs the command revert-buffer-with-coding-system
|    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `international/mule'.
| It is bound to C-x RET r, <menu-bar> <options> <mule>
| <set-various-coding-system> <revert-buffer-with-coding-system>.
| (revert-buffer-with-coding-system CODING-SYSTEM &optional FORCE)
| 
| Visit the current buffer's file again using coding system CODING-SYSTEM.
| For a list of possible values of CODING-SYSTEM, use M-x list-coding-systems.
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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