Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> wrote: > Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > > > Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> writes: > > > >> Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizol...@free.fr> writes: > >> > >>> I'm having a very strange problem with character encoding. I write all > >>> my text files with emacs, with non-ascii characters (I'm french). I keep > >>> a copy of many files (latex/org/...) on separate machines using > >>> unison. Very often after a synchronization, the non-ascii charaters are > >>> completely displayed wrong (à for à, ç for ç) in the org files, but > >>> never in the latex files. > >>> > >>> I guess it's more an Emacs than org files but I can't see what's special > >>> in the org files that makes them more prone to such errors. > >>> > >>> Is there a way to *fix* easily these corruptions on a file, ie searching > >>> for all "weird" characters to replace ? > >>> > >>> How could I prevent this from happening again (checking/changing > >>> character encoding maybe ?) > >>> > >>> Thanks for your help, > >>> > >>> Julien. > >> > >> Hi Julien, > >> > >> I get prompts for encoding when saving/exporting (on Windows only) so I > >> put the following at the top of my org-files > >> > >> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > >> > >> which seems to fix the problem for me. Maybe this will help? > > > > I used to have this problem and it was incredibly annoying. I also > > started adding the line Bernt suggests but I kept forgetting for new > > files. I finally solved this problem by adding the following lines to > > my emacs initialisation: > > > > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > > (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) > > (set-charset-priority 'unicode) > > (setq default-process-coding-system '(utf-8-unix . utf-8-unix)) > > #+end_src > > > > I couldn't tell you which of these matter or whether they are all > > necessary but I don't have these problems any longer so I haven't > > investigated any further! > > Thanks Eric! > > I'll try this and drop my mode line setting in each org file. I still > encounter this when archiving for the first time to a new file -- since > I'm archive utf-8 content and the new target org file prompts for > encoding with my current setup. > > Regards, > Bernt
Isn't the setting of LANG used during initialization to set these things? I have LANG set to en_US.UTF-8 and new buffers are in utf-8-unix (except for mail composition buffers: they are in undecided-unix). I'm pretty sure I'm not mucking with coding systems anywhere in my emacs initialization otherwise. Nick
