saving problem - please help!

[Luca Ferrari]

Hi,
I've got a problem on the saving operation with emacs. When I save the file 
emacs asks me the coding system, because the latin-9 doesn't work. So I 
choose one of the saving coding types, but the characters like 'à' 'é' 'ò' 
are saved like '\216a' etc. Since the text is  a latex input, how can I say 
to emacs to save the text with the correct characters and reconvert the 
already written text into the right format?

Thanks a lot.

-- 
Luca Ferrari,
fluca1978@libero.it