Re: foreign characters

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

On 2012-05-08, prad wrote:

> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>
>> prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:
>>
>>> what can i do to have emacs substitute the correct letter representation
>>> instead of looking at \351?
>>
>> 1- ask the remote to send you UTF-8.  It's the de-facto norm.
>>
>> 2.1- save the file as raw-text: C-x RET c raw-text reT C-x C-w file.txt RET
>> 2.2- kill the buffer. C-x k
>> 2.3- open the file in the right encoding: C-x RET c RIGHT-ENCODING C-x C-f 
>> file.txt RET
>>
>> Now the problem of course is to know what's the right encoding! :-)
>> There are a lot of encodings where \351 <-> é.  But you may try
>> iso-8859-1 to start with.  (That said they don't use iso-8859-1 on
>> MS-Windows).
>>
> thx for all this pascal! i didn't know about any of this stuff.
> thx to you too peter because i tried some of the encoding you'd sent as
> well as what's above.
>
> so i'm in much better shape now and am understanding this area more than
> i did before.

Don't forget C-x RET C-r (for reread file with different coding system) and
M-x recode-region.

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Best regards!