Re: File Encoding Issue on Windows

[Axel E. Retif]

On  13 Mar, 2013, at 22:23, Tech Stuff wrote:

> copy-paste worked lol.  I feel like such an idiot.  Thanks Axel!  
> (and everyone else who participated in the thread)

Good. Just be careful with «Replace All». Say, if I replace all  
occurrences of `` with opening quotation marks (“), maybe everything  
will be fine; but if I then replace all '' with closing quotation  
marks (”), double primes will get replaced as well.

Also, Windows applications can really mess up your files. I would  
advise you against using programs such as Notepad (though I *really*  
don't use and don't know Windows, I have suffered a lot with files  
coming from Windows apps).

Set up Emacs to use UTF-8 and that's it. If you have to use any other  
app, try to use a reliable editor (for example, with (La)TeX files,  
TeXworks uses UTF-8 across platforms).


Best

Axel