bug#19393: 25.0.50; Emacs cannot determine coding system of ISO-8859 encoded files

[Tassilo Horn]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> I also can't force Emacs to use ISO-8859 for that or the original file.
>> `C-x RET f iso-8859-15 RET' results in a query that certain characters
>> cannot be encoded using latin-9, e.g., \374 and \347, and I'm expected
>> to choose another encoding.
>
> That's not how you force Emacs to use a specific encoding when
> visiting a file.  You should do this instead:
>
>   C-x RET c iso-8859-15 RET C-x C-f movies.list RET
>
> IOW, revisit the file, forcing Emacs to decode it as ISO-8859-15.
> (The same works with the original compressed file.)

Ah, indeed, that works.

Bye,
Tassilo