Re: emacs and ASCII file to ISO-8859-* to UTF-8
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 11:26:22PM +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:
> hendrik writes:
>
> > This is an emacs-specific add-on question. If it has seen a file in one
> > encoding system, and I run a program to change it to another (in my
> > case, getting my accented letters converted from the old 8-bit encoding
> > into UTF-8) emacs insists on continuing to read it as if it were in the
> > old encoding, so my accented characters, which have been expanded into
> > two bytes each, show up in the editor as two gibberish characters each.
>
> C-x RET r utf-8 RET should force emacs to read the file using the
^
So this r is a kind of reinterpret operator instead of a convert
operator? Do I type the space between 'r' and 'utf-8'?
-- hendrik
> utf-8 coding system.
>
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