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Re: changing encoding of buffer


From: M G Berberich
Subject: Re: changing encoding of buffer
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 09:35:09 +0200
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On Wed, 30 May 2007 06:22:29 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: M G Berberich <berberic@forwiss.uni-passau.de>
>> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 23:06:48 +0200
>> 
>> > Use encode-coding-region to encode the region in windows-1252, then
>> > use decode-coding-region to decode it back as UTF-8.  That's it!
>> 
>> Thanks. It has to be:
>> 
>>     (encode-coding-region (point-min) end 'utf-8)
>>     (decode-coding-region (point-min) end 'windows-1252)
>> 
>> to work for me.
>
> That's strange: the function you showed that used recode did it the
> other way around, no?

No. It works this way.

  Given: text in windows-1252-encoding in a utf-8-buffer
  Result: same text in UTF-8-encoding in a utf-8-buffer

Don't ask me why.

MfG
bmg

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