Re: [AUCTeX] Fold half whitespaces / utf8 problems

[David Kastrup]

Frederik <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi to everyone,
>
> I use half whitespaces "\," a lot, as I often use abbreviations. This
> may cause very ugly code. So I wanted to fold the half whitespaces
> with the bullet symbol: ∙
>
> But when I try to save the .emacs file, emacs complains that it can't
> encode the non-latin symbol. How do I make emacs open and save the
> .emacs file in utf-8? Or is there a better solution?
> When I choose "Options - Mule - Set coding systems - For saving this
> buffer - utf-8" and reopen .emacs, some symbols get mixed up,
> including the bullet symbol.

Try putting a coding cookie in the file _and_ saving with the above
procedure.  Namely a file-local variable (see the manual) with the name
coding and the value utf-8.


-- 
David Kastrup