Re: File Encoding Issue on Windows

[W. Greenhouse]

Hi,

Tech Stuff <techstuff1971@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi Peter,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to reply.  Though it was useful, I'm still
> confused about how to resolve this issue.  To be clear, when I posted
> yesterday, it was in emacs that I was seeing the extraneous
> characters, not in notepad.  However I just opened it again in
> notepad to check on the encoding and now I'm seeing the extra
> characters there as well.  So something must have changed when as
> part of trying to figure out what was going on, I saved the file in
> Emacs.  Emacs seems to be the culprit.  Is there something that I can
> put in my .emacs to tell it to save automatically in utf-8?  Or am I
> maybe still not understanding things.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> -ts1971 

The following should unequivocally set utf-8 in all relevant contexts:

(setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

The above is tested by me only as far back as Emacs 23.  On an unrelated
note, however, you should consider upgrading if you possibly can;
according to http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/#Releases the newest
Emacs 22 is nearly 5 years old already.


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Regards,
WGG