Re: recode-region.el --- correct incorrectly encoded text

[Magnus Henoch]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> (defun recode-string (string was-really interpreted-as)
>>   (decode-coding-string 
>>    (encode-coding-string (string-make-unibyte string) interpreted-as)
>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>    was-really))
>
> The call to string-make-unibyte looks wrong since it throws away
> information.  Also encode-coding-string takes a multibyte string as input,
> so I'd just use 
>
> (decode-coding-string (encode-coding-string string interpreted-as) was-really)

Indeed, now it works... I must have done something stupid when I
tested that first.

> In Emacs-21, you can say:
>
>    (insert (recode-string (delete--and-extract-region start end)
>                           was-really interpreted-as))

Thanks for the hint!

Magnus