Re: replacing characters and whacky trans-buffer conversion

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.03.2007 um 11:21 schrieb ken:

> I've further discovered that it's not even a matter of cutting &
> pasting/yanking.  If I simply enter C-q 5 5 4 2 RETURN in *.el and  
> again
> in *scratch*, this results in a different character in each buffer,  
> the
> *.el file getting it wrong (which is the kern of the problem).

Emacs Lisp files are usually kep in some ISO Latin. If you want to  
enter the GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA, U+03B2, i.e. ``β´´ (and not the  
German LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S, U+00DF, i.e. ``ß´´), you should  
add this as the first line of your ~/.emacs file (more variables  
possible):

        ;;; -*- mode: Emacs-Lisp; coding: utf-8-unix; -*-

First open the file as usual, then add the new line as first line (or  
enter them as local variables at the file's end), and finally save as  
utf-8.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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