Yesterday I had a problem. I would read a RMAIL-mode file saved via `gnus-summary-save-in-rmail' and the ellipses would be escape-quoted and display as \205.
I was told that I needed to find the file using windows-1252 as my coding system. Now the windows-1252 ellipses display nicely when I run `universal-coding-system-argument' (C-x RET c windows-1252) before finding the file. You'd think that, when emacs encounters these \205s, it would KNOW to pick windows-1252. But it doesn't. I put these in my init file to help it along: (prefer-coding-system 'windows-1252) (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) This makes sure utf-8 is top pick, and windows-1252 is second. This did nothing. Is there no way to AUTOMATE emacs' pick of coding system? I thought it chose coding systems intelligently, based on file contents? Do I really have to open a file, see escape-quoted characters, guess what coding system I should use, close the file, and then reopen it using `C-x RET c' in a trial-and-error fashion? -- Scott _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
