Re: Can't make emacs use utf-8?? (on WinXP)

[Jason Rumney]

Bjoern <p2@blinker.net> writes:

> But I can't seem to convert my existing files. If I convert them to
> utf-8 (or mule-utf-8 ?) with C-x RET f utf-8 and save them, their
> encoding is still 'undecided-dos' when I reopen them.

The encoding does not need to be decided until you insert non-ASCII
characters into the buffer.