Re: changing encoding of buffer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: M G Berberich <berberic@forwiss.uni-passau.de>
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:39:20 +0200
> 
> > Suppose those unnamed "MS-products" did announce they produce text
> > in windows-1252, how would that help you avoid the problem?
> 
> Then my newsreader would convert the text from windows-1252 to UTF-8
> (which is my locale environment) before calling emacs and all would
> work fine.

And your newsreader cannot be told that, when the encoding is not
stated, to assume windows-1252, as your fix-ms-posting does?

(Btw, did you use that newsreader to post your article?  If so, it
also lies about the encoding: it claimed the message was in Latin-9
(iso-8859-15), when in fact it was in UTF-8.)

> The problem is that the encoding is not declared, so the
> newsreader does not know that it is windows-1252 and not koi8-r or
> EBCDIC or latin-2 or …

In my experience, when the encoding is not stated, or stated as
Latin-1, it is windows-1252.  I have yet to see a koi8-r encoded
message that doesn't say it, but I guess anything could happen.

> > I see no need to call `recode': Emacs can do that itself.
> 
> Fine, how can this be done?

Use encode-coding-region to encode the region in windows-1252, then
use decode-coding-region to decode it back as UTF-8.  That's it!