Re: file coding problem for .emacs file

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 23.06.2011 02:49, schrieb ishi soichi:
> Emacs23.2
> MacOSX SnowLeopard
>
> Hi. I normally set Emacs to that it can show Japanese characters, and it was
> fine until yesterday.
>
> The comments in .emacs file are in Japanese.  And these comments have
> suddenly become corrupt.  All Japanese fonts are messed up and unable to
> read
>
> I changed many settings but I am not sure what exactly caused this problem.
>
> So I tried...
>
> 1. commented the entire .emacs file.  But no change.  The mode-line shows
> "-=:-- .emacs " so file-coding system must be wrong.
> 2. I uncommented a part of the regular setting,
>
> (set-language-environment 'Japanese)
> (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
>
> and rebooted Emacs.  But it still gives the same problem.
>
> 3. I implemented "set-buffer-file-coding-system" (default was nil).  Then I
> changed that to shift-jis and utf-8. It does no improve the situation at
> all.
>
> Could anyone guess what the problem is ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> soichi
>
> When .emacs file is loaded, it looks like Emacs reads some cached (?) data
> hidden somewhere, which I cannot find.

Hi,

experienced a similar problem in earlier times with German umlauts for 
example.

Here something went wrong when saving. For example when saved from 
XEmacs it was destroyed for GNU.

Keeping it under version-control now so may check out an earlier version 
if that happens.

Good luck,

Andreas