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Emacs File Encoding FAQ - ErgoEmacs
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Emacs File Encoding FAQ. By Xah Lee. Date: 2009 . Last updated: 2016-09-16 . This page is a tutorial on file and character encoding/decoding in emacs. If you don't know what's encoding/decoding, first read: Unicode Basics: What's Character Set, Character Encoding, UTF-8?unicode - What is Emacs' default character encoding for saving ...
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May 18, 2017 - Chapter 22.2 Language Environments of the Emacs Manual is the best place to start. The language environment controls how files are read and written, how input is handled, etc. The default is to look at the LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables and pick a language environment based on the ...encoding - Change Emacs Default Coding System - Stack Overflow
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Nov 23, 2009 - By default, Emacs will not write file variables into your files. You must have asked it to do so somewhere in your .emacs. Try running emacs -q and see if the file variables get inserted.EmacsWiki: Unicode Encoding
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Nov 18, 2016 - You pass it a regexp, which is matched against all Unicode character names (in 'EmacsWiki: Changing Encodings
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Jul 19, 2017 - When Emacs reads a file, it determines the encoding, reads the file, decodes it into an internal representation, and stores the coding-system used in a variable to be used when saving the file. ... The character `ö' has the same code point in Latin-1 and Latin-2, which is why it 'displays correctly' . See M-x ...Default Coding Systems - GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
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If coding is a cons cell containing two coding systems, its car specifies the coding system for decoding, and its cdr specifies the coding system for encoding. If coding is a function name, the function should take one argument, a list of all arguments passed to find-operation-coding-system . It must return a coding system or a ...Specify Coding - GNU Emacs Manual - GNU.org
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22.7 Specifying a File's Coding System. If Emacs recognizes the encoding of a file incorrectly, you can reread the file using the correct coding system with C-x <GNU Emacs Manual - International Character Set Support - ftp
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Emacs internally uses a single multibyte character encoding, so that it can intermix characters from all these scripts in a single buffer or string. This encoding represents each non-ASCII character as a sequence of bytes in the range 0200 through 0377. Emacs translates between the multibyte character encoding and various ...Working with Coding Systems and Unicode in Emacs - Mastering Emacs
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The most important change (for me, anyway) is to force Emacs to default to UTF-8 . ... The biggest issue is convincing Emacs to treat files as UTF-8 by default, when no information in the file explicitly says it is. I use the following ... This command is a must-have if you have to deal with stuff encoded in strange coding systems.How to switch back text encoding to UTF-8 with emacs? - Super User
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Feb 11, 2013 - If you haven't changed the file, you can try M-x revert-buffer-with-coding-system . One of latin-1 or utf-8 should work, depending on the file. You can also mark the entire file with C-x h and then try M-x recode-region . It will ask you for Text was really in and But was interpreted as . For the first file in your ...