Re: Coding problem with Euro sign

[David Hansen]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:04:05 +0100 Ralf Angeli wrote:

> * Ralf Angeli (2005-12-14) writes:
>
>> * David Hansen (2005-12-14) writes:
>>
>>>   file code: 0xFC (encoded by coding system windows-1252-unix)
>>
>> Argh, yes, that was the problem.  Not so much a typo, I simply used
>> the wrong coding system.  Thanks for setting me right (twice).
>
> Now that this is settled, would it be possible for Emacs to figure out
> the right coding system by itself in the case at hand?  That means
> without me having to specify coding systems explicitely by means of
> preferred coding system options, coding cookies, or `C-x RET c' and
> similar.

Actually i don't know exactly how emacs chooses the coding.  This
seems to work for me but may break other stuff and you may want
to move the utf-8 line up if you prefer latin-1 over utf-8.

(prefer-coding-system 'latin-1)
(prefer-coding-system 'latin-9)
(prefer-coding-system 'windows-1252)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

But I would avoid the use of windows-1252 coding and just use a
tool like iconv to convert such files to utf-8 or latin-9.

David