coding problem char \217 etc

[Uwe Brauer]

Hi 

>From time to time I obtain documents which look like

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} 
 \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}      % Police contenant les caractres franais
\usepackage{geometry}         % DŽfinir les marges
%  \usepackage[francais]{babel}  % Placez ici une liste de langues, la
                              % dernire Žtant la langue principale

% \pagestyle{headings}        % Pour mettre des enttes avec les titres
                              % des subsections en haut de page


Since I am not sure that the coding survives I write that as

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} 
 \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}      % Police contenant les caract\217res fran\215ais
\usepackage{geometry}         % D\216finir les marges
%  \usepackage[francais]{babel}  % Placez ici une liste de langues, la
                              % derni\217re \216tant la langue principale

% \pagestyle{headings}        % Pour mettre des ent\220tes avec les titres
                              % des subsections en haut de page


And I simple don't know who to deal with it, I try to save it as latin-1
or as utf-8 I run encode-coding-region with various codings. Nothing
works.

C-x = shows me for example for \217

Char:  (143, #o217, #x8f, file ...) point=546 of 1416 (38%) <57-1417> column=37

Which is not very helpful.

Any ideas what to do. Any possibility how emacs could deal with this
automatically?

Uwe Brauer