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Re: How to get emacs to save files as UTF8
From: |
Harald Hanche-Olsen |
Subject: |
Re: How to get emacs to save files as UTF8 |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:31:20 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (berkeley-unix) |
+ eric.goforth@gmail.com:
| I've changed the following in my .emacs file:
|
| (custom-set-variables
| [snip]
| '(current-language-environment "UTF-8")
| )
|
| However, I'm opening all of the .asp files in a directory using dired,
| doing a search and replace for 65001, replacing it with 65001.
Which shouldn't do anything: Emacs by default saves files in the same
encoding that it reads them in.
| The first line of all my .asp files is:
| <%@ Language=VBScript CodePage=65001 %>
|
| I then save all the files, but when I open one with notepad and do a
| save as, ANSI is the default Encoding, leading me to think that they
| aren't being saved as UTF8.
Uh, I haven't the faintest notion how notepad determines the encoding
of a file.
| I'm using NTEmacs 21.3.1. Alternatively, if someone knows of a
| quick way to change the Encoding of a bunch of files to UTF8 in
| Windows XP, I'm all ears.
I just whipped up this function for you:
(defun change-encoding-to-utf8 (dir pattern)
(interactive "DChange files to UTF-8 encoding in directory:
sMatching file pattern (regexp): ")
(let ((files (directory-files dir t pattern)))
(mapc (lambda (file)
(find-file file)
(set-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
(save-buffer)
(kill-buffer (current-buffer)))
files)))
Define the function by putting the cursor behind the final parenthesis
and hitting C-x C-e. Then run
M-x change-encoding-to-utf8 RET (speficy directory) RET .*[.]asd$ RET
(don't type any of the spaces - ".*[.]asd$" is a regexp matching
".asd" at the end of a filename.)
No guarantees, and backup your files before you try this.
But I did try it, and didn't see any troubles.
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* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
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