Re: Opening UTF-8 text files (macemacsjp-english 628) - MacEmacs JP

Am 16.08.2006 um 14:06 schrieb Mahn-Soo Choi:

> FYI, I alwasy set
>
> (set-language-environment 'English)

Don't do this! This sets a 7 or 8 bit environment as default. I think  
it does not work to overcome this faulty setting later.

> (set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8-unix)

Instead of this tell Emacs that you have the environment variable  
LC_ALL or LANG set to some UTF-8 value. Use better

	(prefer-coding-system   'utf-8m)

Open CharacterPalette and choose ñ. You'll see that this ISO Latin-1  
character is UTF-8 encoded as the two octets C3 B1, being displayed  
or interpreted in an ISO Latin-1 character encoding as Ã±!

You can teach Emacs a particular encoding using a first line with  
such a contents:

	-*- mode: Text; coding: iso-8859-16; -*-

or by using file (buffer) local variables like these at the end of  
the file:

%
% Local Variables:
% mode: LaTeX
% fill-column: 160
% coding-system: iso-latin-9
% End:
%
%%

Choose in both cases comment characters that suit the mode chosen!

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   Pete

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[macemacsjp-english 628] Re: Opening UTF-8 text files