Re: Opening file in UTF-8 mode automatically

[Xah Lee]

Not sure about auto-detecting, but i work with utf-8 daily and never
have a problem.

I do, however, set my emacs to use utf-8 by default.

To set your file encoding in emacs, use the menu "Options→Mule
(Multilingual Environment)→Set Language Environment".

After you've pulled the menu, be sure to also pull the menu command
"Options→Save Options" so that emacs remembers your settings.

or

Alt+x set-language-environment UTF-8

See also:
* Emacs and Unicode tips
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_n_unicode.html

  Xah
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On Nov 24, 8:38 am, "spamfilteracco...@gmail.com"
<spamfilteracco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to edit some UTF-8 files and it's very annoying emacs doesn't
> detect it automatically (I have to reopen them as utf-8 manually) and
> sometimes I notice it only after I already edited and saved the file
> which messes up the formatting.
>
> I tried prefer-coding-system utf-8, but it didn't help.
>
> I can't put lisp code into the files, because they are data files.
>
> Is there a definitive way to do it? The BOM is at the beginning of the
> files, so Emacs could detect it automatically.
>
> It's emacs 22.