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Re: changing encoding of buffer
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M G Berberich |
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Re: changing encoding of buffer |
Date: |
Tue, 29 May 2007 23:06:48 +0200 |
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Am Tue, 29 May 2007 22:52:11 +0300 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
>> From: M G Berberich <berberic@forwiss.uni-passau.de>
>> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:39:20 +0200
>>
>> > Suppose those unnamed "MS-products" did announce they produce text
>> > in windows-1252, how would that help you avoid the problem?
>>
>> Then my newsreader would convert the text from windows-1252 to UTF-8
>> (which is my locale environment) before calling emacs and all would
>> work fine.
>
> And your newsreader cannot be told that, when the encoding is not
> stated, to assume windows-1252, as your fix-ms-posting does?
Unfortunately not, it sticks to the standard and that says: No
declaration => ansi.
> (Btw, did you use that newsreader to post your article?
No. This was the newsreader at work.
> If so, it also lies about the encoding: it claimed the message was
> in Latin-9 (iso-8859-15), when in fact it was in UTF-8.)
You are right. It was definitely misconfigured. And yes, it's my
fault :(
>> > I see no need to call `recode': Emacs can do that itself.
>>
>> Fine, how can this be done?
>
> Use encode-coding-region to encode the region in windows-1252, then
> use decode-coding-region to decode it back as UTF-8. That's it!
Thanks. It has to be:
(encode-coding-region (point-min) end 'utf-8)
(decode-coding-region (point-min) end 'windows-1252)
to work for me.
MfG
bmg
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