Re: character encoding EMACS + WINDOWS +SHELL

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:48:51 -0400
> From: Pablo Mercader Alcántara <programingfrik@gmail.com>
> 
> Because I want to explain it clear and fast I used an example (I'm on
> windows XP SP2 using GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600):
> 
> 1. I open notepad
> 2. write "coño"
> 3. I save "prueba.txt" and close
> 4. then press "Start + r"
> 5. and write cmd
> 6. type "emacs -nw" (I want to use it in the shell)
> 7. then in EMACS C-x C-f "prueba.txt"
> 8. why is that instead of "coño" I get "co±o"??,

Does it work if you type "C-x RET c latin-1 RET C-x C-f prueba.txt RET"?