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Re: The text coding sytem for Emacs
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: The text coding sytem for Emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:19:48 +0200 |
> From: Water Lin <WaterLin@ymail.invalid>
> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:30:27 +0800
>
>
> I re-install my Windows XP system. But after I start Emacs, it treats my
> text file as iso-latin-1-unix. But actually the coding system should be
> utf-8. So Emacs shows the text as a mess.
What version of Emacs is that? With Emacs 23.1 I think this shouldn't
happen (barring some rare bug). If you don't have Emacs 23.1, can you
upgrade?
> How can I let Emacs to treat text file as UTF-8 by default?
For this file only, or for all files?
For the latter `(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)' in your .emacs should
do, I think. For the former, you can add a `coding:' cookie to the
file.