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Re: emacs coding system


From: Reiner Steib
Subject: Re: emacs coding system
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:16:21 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

On Fri, Nov 12 2004, Thomas Beresford wrote:

> Isn't there an alternative way to do that? Editing the .emacs for example? 

Please don't top-post.

[...]
>>> How can I set up emacs so it will open and save files in utf-8
>>> coding system?
>>
>>   export LANG=foo_BAR.utf-8
>>
>>I.e. set your locale.

(set-language-environment "UTF-8") if you use Emacs 21.3 or CVS Emacs.
Probably you can also use `prefer-coding-system' and friends, see the
manual for details:

(info "(emacs)Recognize Coding")
(info "(emacs)Language Environments")

Bye, Reiner.
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