Re: switch between utf-8 and latin-1 (ARGH!!)

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

?manu* <paolNOini@math.SPAMunifi.it> writes:

> Anselm Helbig ha scritto:
>> You don't need another editor to do that. Just try to understand what
>> emacs is doing here: when you added the line about the coding system
>> emacs understood that you want the contents of the buffer saved with
>> this coding system. Emacs can not know that the characters on screen
>> are not what you want! So you first have to get to the point where
>> Emacs has the correct notion about the coding system. Pascal already
>> pointed you to `set-buffer-file-coding-system', 
>
> This was not useful because it does not change the meaning of the
> caracters in the buffer. It only changes the encoding of the
> characters when saving to file.

Normally, you would have checked the user manual, and on the page
about set-buffer-file-coding-system, you would have seen the
description of universal-coding-system-argument...

(info "(emacs)Text Coding")


    File: emacs,  Node: Text Coding

    27.11 Specifying a Coding System for File Text
    ==============================================
    ...


>> another way is to use
>> `universal-coding-system-argument' (C-x RET c) immediately before
>> opening a file.
>
> ...yes this was the right command to use...
>
> thanks,
>       E.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__