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Re: user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:04:11 -0400 |
> I was in such a situation yesterday. Normally I use latin-1 encoding but
> switched to language environment latin-9 to edit some files containing
> Euro
> signs and forgot about this change. Then I loaded a 400 line DOS file
> containing "-*- coding: cp850 -*-" in the first line. Emacs encoded all
> the
> umlauts already in the file as latin-1 but encoded the typed umlauts as
> latin-9. And after minor changes all over the file and a few interruptions
> I didn't remember which parts were changed and which were old ...
>
> Does anyone have an idea for what we should do about this?
> Does the change to turn on unify-on-encoding fix this automatically?
It does fix the above case, yes.
> Will the switch to native Unicode fix it?
It will also fix it.
Stefan