Re: converting between charsets

[Stefan Monnier]

SM> Than show us how and when you call encode-coding-region.
SM> I.e. repeat the above but in elisp rather than english.
SM> Assume you're explining it to a complete idiot.

Please take seriously the bit about the idiot.

> For example.
> 1. (find-file "/tmp/test.txt")

How did you start Emacs?

> 2. enter some text in Russian (after I toggled xkb layout)
> 3. M-: (encode-coding-region (point-min) (point-max) 'koi8-r) and
> Russian characters become '?'.

What did you expect instead?


        Stefan