Re: Chars escape-quoted in RMAIL files saved from gnus

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 28.04.2008 um 01:30 schrieb Scott Heftler:

> You'd think that, when emacs encounters these \205s, it would KNOW to
> pick windows-1252.  But it doesn't.  Is there no way to AUTOMATE
> emacs' pick of coding system?


It's possible to use (file) local variables. In the file's header,  
first line I think, something like

        ;; -*- mode: Emacs-Lisp; coding: utf-8; -*-

or at the file's end

        %%% Local Variables:
        %%% mode: latex
        %%% TeX-master: t
        %%% coding: utf-8-unix
        %%% TeX-command-default: "XeLaTeX"
        %%% End:

you can set a few parameters of operation. Depending on which file  
type(s) is easier to manipulate by these means you can leave out one  
encoding preference. Something like this might also work (I think I  
once had this active):

        ;;(setq file-coding-system-alist
        ;;  (append
        ;;    '(("\\.tex\\'" iso-latin-9-unix . iso-latin-9-unix))
        ;;    file-coding-system-alist))
        
        ;(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "\\.tex\\'" 'iso-latin-9-unix)

Or you can decide to reduce the number of encodings you use.  
Sometimes less pluralism can be more.

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  Pete

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