Re: word syntax/umlauts emacs 23 vs 22

[Jason Rumney]

On Oct 21, 9:25 pm, Ralf Fassel <ralf...@gmx.de> wrote:

> However, a different, larger (800+kB) file which is also supposed to be
> latin-1 displays as "t:--- file", and the single-byte Umlauts are
> displayed as octal.  How can I find out why emacs loads this file in 't'
> instead of '1'?  A quick search shows only doubled umlauts such as
> 'Grüße' or öö, but if I add these to foo.txt, emacs still loads foo.txt
> as "1:".

Was the file edited on Windows?  Does it contain euro signs,
"smartquotes" or other non-standard Microsoft additions to Latin-1?

If this is the answer to your problem, then the following should help
(but probably breaks auto-detection of utf-8 files).

(prefer-coding-system 'windows-1252)