Re: non-ASCII characters in auto-save files

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.06.2012 um 14:46 schrieb grivet:

> I have two questions:
>    - Can Emacs be persuaded to to encode auto-save files in a more useful 
> manner ?
>    - Is there a systematic way to convert #myfile# to iso-latin-9 (or 
> iso-latin-1) code, other than painstakingly
> searching and replacing offending chars ?

I have one answer: use file-local variables!

For example in the header:

        %%% -*- mode: LaTeX; coding: iso-latin-9-unix; -*-

Or in the (AUCTeX) footer:

        %%% Local Variables:
        %%% mode: LaTeX
        %%% fill-column: 99999
        %%% coding: iso-latin-9
        %%% End:
        %

In the header you can combine the coding line with a time-stamp line, updated 
every time you save the file:

        %%%     Time-stamp: <2012-01-15 16:41:38 pete> 


With C-x RET c <encoding name> RET you can set an encoding to be used when you 
read and open the auto-save file. You can use the same command to set an 
encoding for saving the file.

--
Greetings

  Pete

There's no place like ~
                        – (UNIX Guru)