Re: can't unjumble foreign buffer

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

> I do find-file on a file that is unicode text (.txt), and I want to
> unjumble before my eyes.  The only thing on the menus that might be
> appropriate is 'set coding system' but that is greyed-out.

From emacs-21.3/lisp/international/mule-cmds.el:

(define-key-after mule-menu-keymap [set-various-coding-system]
  (list 'menu-item "Set Coding Systems" set-coding-system-map
        :enable 'enable-multibyte-characters))

So the "Set Coding Systems" menu item is grayed-out when
enable-multibyte-characters is nil.  So you must have explicitly disabled
multibyte character support.

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