Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes: > 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
Maybe - I'm having this issue on Windows... -Bernt