In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Reiner Steib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [1 <text/plain; iso-8859-1 (quoted-printable)>] > On Wed, Sep 20 2006, Andreas Roehler wrote: > > Emacs -q > > > > When opening files written with previous Emacs > > versions, several chars - German Umlaute and also `-' > This is an ASCII HYPHEN-MINUS (U+002D), probably you mean EN DASH > (U+2013) or EM DASH (U+2014). > > for example - are displayed as numbers, not as symbol. > > > > So `Straße' is shown as `Stra\337e' > > > > C-x = > > > > at point gives the correct result and also shows the > > symbol: > > > > -> > > Char: ß (223, #o337, #xdf, file #xDF) point=395 of 2660 (15%) column=13 > (Would `C-u C-x =' (M-x describe-char RET) give more useful > information in this case?) > > C-h v buffer-file-coding-system > > -> > > ... Its value is raw-text-unix That means that Emacs couldn't detect a correct encoding of that file. It seems that the file is encoded in iso-8859-1, but the encoding suggested by your locale is different. Please try to visit that file by: C-x RET c iso-8859-1 RET C-x C-f FILENAME If you want to save that file in UTF-8, do this: C-x RET f utf-8 RET C-x C-s --- Kenichi Handa [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
