RE: [h-e-w] Saving in utf-16-le encoding

[PaulBowman]

James,

This works well for me. Thanks for your help.

cheers,

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Todd [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 20 September 2005 18:28
> To: Bowman, Paul (HBOS Group Technology); address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [h-e-w] Saving in utf-16-le encoding
> 
> 
> I've seen this problem too. The utf-16-le-pre-write-conversion and
> utf-16-be-pre-write-conversion functions don't actually seem to be
> defined by default. I got around this by defining empty functions, and
> also by setting the 'auto-coding-regexp-alist to 
> automatically recognize
> both LE and BE utf-16 files. I've the relevant elisp code below.
> 
> HTH,
> James
> 
> ;; Make emacs recognize a double byte utf-16 unicode file, which is
> ;; the unicode text file time commonly used under windows. We do this
> ;; by looking for the 4 byte marker (called 'BOM') at the start of the
> ;; file, which also indicates either big or little endian. "^\377\376"
> ;; is FFFE in octal.
> (add-to-list 'auto-coding-regexp-alist '("^\377\376" . utf-16-le) t)
> (add-to-list 'auto-coding-regexp-alist '("^\376\377" . utf-16-be) t)
> 
> ;; The utf-16-le-pre-write-conversion function is called whenever
> ;; we're saving out a utf-16 text file. For some reason the function
> ;; doesn't exist in the distribution emacs files, so we define our
> ;; own.
> (defun utf-16-le-pre-write-conversion (start end)
>   nil
>   )
> 
> (defun utf-16-be-pre-write-conversion (start end)
>   nil
>   )
> <SNIP>

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