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Re: coding systems for reading files
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: coding systems for reading files |
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Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:21:14 +0300 |
> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 18:11:50 +0200
> From: Ernest Adrogué <nfdisco@gmail.com>
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> Say that when opening an existing file I want to try first with iso-latin-1
> and if this fails try windows-1252. How does one tell Emacs to do that? If
> I do
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> (set-coding-system-priority 'windows-1252)
> (set-coding-system-priority 'latin-1)
Since windows-1252 is a superset of latin-1, why does this make sense?