Jon Riding wrote: > FC2 uses UTF-8 by default. To my recollection the anaconda > installer for fc2 doesn't give you the option to change to > ascii...
You may start emacs (and LyX) with
env LANG=en_US emacs
to avoid the production of unicode-encoded texts.
Files in unicode can be converted to ISO8859-1 with the following command:
iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO8859-1 {utf8-encoded file} >{iso8859-encoded file}
HTH,
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