From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernt Hansen Subject: Re: encoding problem Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:15:13 -0400 Message-ID: <87hauvhuum.fsf@norang.ca> References: <87mx4q0z95.fsf@free.fr> <87aa0pk4xy.fsf@norang.ca> <87aa0nphu9.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SaUVd-0007s4-5U for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:15:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SaUVb-0002M8-9D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:15:28 -0400 Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:43439) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SaUVb-0002KS-6D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:15:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87aa0nphu9.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Fri, 1 Jun 2012 17:46:46 +0930") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric S Fraga Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Julien Cubizolles Eric S Fraga writes: > Bernt Hansen writes: > >> Julien Cubizolles 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 (=C3=83=C2=A0 for =C3=A0, =C3=83=C2=A7 for = =C3=A7) 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=C2=A0? >>> >>> How could I prevent this from happening again (checking/changing >>> character encoding maybe=C2=A0?) >>> >>> 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