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Re: encoding used by those #some.txt# backup?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: encoding used by those #some.txt# backup? |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:37:44 +0200 |
> From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:30:34 -0800 (PST)
>
> it seems emacs's crash backup files saved my utf-8 files in a
> different encoding.
It's the internal representation of characters used by Emacs. Since
auto-save files must be always encoded correctly, the only safe way of
doing that is to dump the internal representation.
> If i have a crash, then opening the #x.txt# file the content is:
>
> \234\364\370\261 something
>
> since my files have lots of unicode, this renders those auto-save not
> usable.
M-x recover-file RET should DTRT.
> is this a bug or am i missing some file encoding for this type of
> backups?
M-x recover-file RET should decode them correctly.