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From: | Peter Dyballa |
Subject: | Re: how to change file coding system |
Date: | Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:09:20 +0200 |
Am 17.08.2005 um 11:20 schrieb Martin Monsorno:
7) file bla* bla.changed-by-eclipse: UTF-8 Unicode text bla.created-by-eclipse: UTF-8 Unicode text bla.created-by-emacs: ISO-8859 text 8) Visiting bla.changed-by-eclipse with emacs shows "�berfall" 9) Visiting bla.chreated-by-eclipse with emacs shows "überfall" So we now have 3 files containing the "same" string, 2 of them claim to be utf-8, but they use a different encoding (2 or 3 bytes). For all 3 files, when opening the in emacs, buffer-file-coding-system's value is raw-text-unix.
I wouldn't say the files claim to be something -- it's the `file´ programme that says so, according to some rules in `magic´ files. UTF-8 contents usually cannot be distinguished from other contents -- a byte is a byte is a byte. Some UTF-8 files contain a marker by which one can determine, that it's UTF-8. Other markers state that the text is written right to left with a citation left to right. Could be Eclipse writes such a marker ...
The C-x RET commands *do not* change a buffer's (or a file's) contents,they just put some new skin on the buffer so that your view on the buffer's (i.e. file's) contents is adapted in a certain way: you can see a buffer's (or file's) whatever contents in green, blue, red, yellow, cyan ... utf-8, Mac-Roman, NeXT, koi-r8, euc-jp-unix ... encoding/view.I think I understood this. But this means that I can change the file-encoding of a file with emacs, doesn't it?
Yes. I Usually revert buffer from file with new encoding, C-x RET r <encoding> RET and save the file in that encoding. I'd say it works reliably!
What I cite in my mails are the strings as emacs shows them to me when loading one of the files. So the question is, /why/ are they not UTF-8? Does eclipse do a wrong latin-1 to utf-8 conversion?
I don't know and use Eclipse. Test is with its own documentation -- and some reliably encoded files!
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