Re: Files from I-Mac

[Tux]

Thank you Oliver, that's all right;
mit freunlichem Gruss.
Claude

Oliver Scholz wrote:

> Pascal Bourguignon <spam@thalassa.informatimago.com> writes:
> 
>> Tux <claude.h.baudouin@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> When I open a file "xxx.txt" generated with a I-Mac computer, all
>>> letters with accent
>>> are stand in for : \211 for â, \216 for é, etc...
>>> What coding I must choose.
>>> I have a PC with Linux.
>>> Thanks
>>> Claude Baudouin
>>
>> I don't know  if emacs knows the Macintosh encoding.   You may want to
>> convert your Macintosh texts with iconv, to iso-8859-1 (Latin-1).
> [...]
> 
> If I do `C-x RET c TAB' then mac-roman is listed among the available
> encodings. So maybe `C-x RET c mac-roman RET C-x C-f' just works?
> 
>     Oliver