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Re: Emacs utf-8 coding system


From: Thien-Thi Nguyen
Subject: Re: Emacs utf-8 coding system
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:49:55 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> writes:

> I tried C-x Ret f and a few encodings, but nothing
> seems to change

it could be that the file is in utf-16le, not utf-8.
try `universal-coding-system-argument' (normally bound
to `C-x RET c'), like so:

  C-x <RET> c utf-16le <RET> C-x C-f FILENAME <RET>

if that works, see also var `file-coding-system-alist'.

thi

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