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Re: problem with editing/decoding utf-8 text
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Oliver Scholz |
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Re: problem with editing/decoding utf-8 text |
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Fri, 23 May 2003 21:23:38 +0200 |
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kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> Fery <engard.ferenc@innomed.hu> writes:
>
>> I have a UTF-8 text file, containing latin-1 text. When I try to edit it
>> with emacs, it does not detect that it is utf-8; the
>> describe-coding-system gives back 'iso-latin-1-unix'. (And I see the
>> two-byte representation of latin1 chars, which is not bad to me.)
>
> Released versions of Emacs put UTF-8 at a rather low priority for
> automatic encoding detection. So you need to help Emacs by
> explicitly specifying the encoding. Do C-x RET c utf-8 RET before
> using C-x C-f to open the file.
>
> You can also put utf-8 somewhat earlier in the list for automatic
> encoding detection. I think this can be achieved in the following
> way, but I'm not sure. I'm not a Mule expert. If anyone knows
> better, please help out.
>
> (setq coding-category-list
> (cons 'coding-category-utf-8
> (delq 'coding-cateogcoding-utf-8
> coding-category-list)))
>
Not 100% if this really makes a difference --
(set-coding-priority (list 'coding-category-utf-8))
maybe?
If you want UTF-8 to be the default for new files:
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
[...]
>> 1. Cannot I tell to a buffer (after the load of a file) that interpet it
>> as binary, and save exactly the same bytes what it did read into the
>> buffer (i.e. transparent buffer)?
>
> It's not a good idea. The buffer contents might already be munged at
> that point.
[...]
Maybe the OP wants to visit files with `M-x find-file-literally'?
Oliver
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- problem with editing/decoding utf-8 text, Fery, 2003/05/23
- Re: problem with editing/decoding utf-8 text, Kai Großjohann, 2003/05/23
- Re: problem with editing/decoding utf-8 text,
Oliver Scholz <=
- Re: problem with editing/decoding utf-8 text, Stefan Monnier, 2003/05/23
- Re: problem with editing/decoding utf-8 text, Fery, 2003/05/26
- Re: problem with editing/decoding utf-8 text, Fery, 2003/05/26
- Re: problem with editing/decoding utf-8 text, Fery, 2003/05/27
- Re: problem with editing/decoding utf-8 text, Oliver Scholz, 2003/05/27
- Re: problem with editing/decoding utf-8 text, Oliver Scholz, 2003/05/27
- Re: problem with editing/decoding utf-8 text, Fery, 2003/05/30
- Re: problem with editing/decoding utf-8 text, Kai Großjohann, 2003/05/30