Re: Encodings in Emacs.

[Stefan Monnier]

> So the only way to get what you want is to tell Emacs which coding
> system it should use to read that file *before* Emacs visits it. You
> can do this with `C-x RET c'. For example:
> `C-x RET c shift_jis RET C-x f your-file.txt RET'
                              ^^^
                              C-f   of course

> But cautiion: I am not familiar with the encodings you mentioned, but
> I think when you have a file with several encodings you will break
> the parts with the "other" encodings, when you save that file.

There were indeed such bug in Emacs-20 and I'm sure there are still
some in Emacs-21, but note that it shouldn't happen and if you get
such lossage, you should report it as a bug with M-x report-emacs-bug.


        Stefan