Re: encoding problem

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:
> >
> >> Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:
> >>
> >>> I'm having a very strange problem with character encoding. I write all
> >>> my text files with emacs, with non-ascii characters (I'm french). I keep
> >>> a copy of many files (latex/org/...) on separate machines using
> >>> unison. Very often after a synchronization, the non-ascii charaters are
> >>> completely displayed wrong (à for à, ç for ç) in the org files, but
> >>> never in the latex files.
> >>>
> >>> I guess it's more an Emacs than org files but I can't see what's special
> >>> in the org files that makes them more prone to such errors.
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to *fix* easily these corruptions on a file, ie searching
> >>> for all "weird" characters to replace ?
> >>>
> >>> How could I prevent this from happening again (checking/changing
> >>> character encoding maybe ?)
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your help,
> >>>
> >>> Julien.
> >>
> >> Hi Julien,
> >>
> >> I get prompts for encoding when saving/exporting (on Windows only) so I
> >> put the following at the top of my org-files
> >>
> >> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> >>
> >> which seems to fix the problem for me.  Maybe this will help?
> >
> > I used to have this problem and it was incredibly annoying.  I also
> > started adding the line Bernt suggests but I kept forgetting for new
> > files.  I finally solved this problem by adding the following lines to
> > my emacs initialisation:
> >
> > #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> > (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
> > (set-charset-priority 'unicode)
> > (setq default-process-coding-system '(utf-8-unix . utf-8-unix))
> > #+end_src
> >
> > I couldn't tell you which of these matter or whether they are all
> > necessary but I don't have these problems any longer so I haven't
> > investigated any further!
> 
> Thanks Eric!
> 
> I'll try this and drop my mode line setting in each org file.  I still
> encounter this when archiving for the first time to a new file -- since
> I'm archive utf-8 content and the new target org file prompts for
> encoding with my current setup.
> 
> Regards,
> Bernt

Isn't the setting of LANG used during initialization to set these things?
I have LANG set to en_US.UTF-8  and new buffers are in utf-8-unix
(except for mail composition buffers: they are in undecided-unix).
I'm pretty sure I'm not mucking with coding systems anywhere in my emacs
initialization otherwise.

Nick