Re: [HELP] (bug?) Saving a buffer without any conversion?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mario Lang <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 07:46:11 +0100
> 
> > I suggest to use raw-text for both coding systems above, and see if that 
> > helps.
> 
> I've tried that now, and no.  'raw-text has the same effect as
> 'no-conversion or 'binary....
> 
> > An alternative approach is to (set-buffer-multibyte nil) before reading 
> > the data into it and before saving it.
> 
> This works!  Thanks!  But I'm still a bit confused as to why
> setting coding-system does not help.

Probably because something was not set up quite as it should have
been.  What does Emacs say about non-ASCII characters in the buffer
(_before_ you save it) if you go to those characters and type
"C-u C-x ="?