Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?

[Peter J. Acklam]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) wrote:

> pjacklam@online.no (Peter J. Acklam) writes:
> 
> > I thought CJK was some Chinese stuff, but all I want it to get
> > Emacs to open a simple text file with European utf-8 text.
> 
> Emacs might not auto-detect UTF-8 out of the box.  Does it work if
> you say C-x RET c utf-8 RET C-x C-f /path/to/the/file RET?

Yes, as I mentioned in an earlier posting in this thread.  :-)
 
> If it is important, I'm sure it's possible to find out how to
> improve UTF-8 autodetection in Emacs.

It does surprise me that Emacs does not open the file in UTF-8
when I have specified that my preference is UTF-8.  There are
ambigueties when detecting the coding system used in a text file,
but when I have set the preference to UTF-8, I think Emacs should
try that first.

Peter

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