Re: non-ASCII characters in auto-save files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:13:21 +0200
> From: grivet <grivet@cnrs-orleans.fr>
> 
> 
>      - 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 ?

Yes.  

   C-x RET c emacs-internal RET C-x C-f #myfile# RET
   C-x RET f latin-9 RET
   C-x C-s

> > Just open the file with the right coding-system (typically, opening
> > "myfile" and then hitting M-x recover-this-file RET should do the
> > trick).
> >
> >
> >          Stefan
> #myfile# c&n be opened in this way but cannot be saved, as the coding 
> system is not recognized.

You should open myfile, not #myfile#.  Then Emacs will automatically
notice that the auto-save file for it exists, and offer to recover it.