Re: '-u:--' in mode line

[B. T. Raven]

mashrur.mia@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Newbie question.
>
> What is meaning of '-u:--' in mode line? This is displayed for the
> scratch buffer. Does this u mean Unicode encoding? if so, is scratch
> buffer encoded in unicode? If so, how I see the encoding of other
> buffers?
>
> thanks


Yes. Probably utf-8 or one of its synonyms. If you type C-h i m emacs m mode 
line you will see the format:
"
Normally, the mode line looks like this:

     -CS:CH  BUF      (MAJOR MINOR)--LINE--POS------
"

cs is coding system and ch is edit status. If you make a change, the two 
hyphens after the colon will CHange to **

Ed