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Re: Change encoding
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Xah Lee |
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Re: Change encoding |
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Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:12:17 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Aug 7, 10:50 am, Christophe Jorssen
<christophe.jors...@libre.fr.invalid> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'd like to know if it is possible to change the encoding of a buffer.
> For exemple, my buffer is encoded in ansinew and I'd like to recode it in
> utf-8.
>
> And, by the way, is it possible to "read a file with this encoding", that
> is automatically convert the encoding of a file when opened (say the file
> is encoded in ansinew and I'd like to have it in my buffer encoded in
> utf-8).
>
> I'm using
>
> GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1
>
> (emacs-snapshot), under unbuntu.
>
> Thanks a lot and sorry for my complete ignorance of the subject.
open the file, then call set-buffer-file-coding-system, then type the
encoding system you want. Type Tab to see a list of possible values.
this page might help:
• Emacs and Unicode Tips
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_n_unicode.html
you could also run a lisp program that changes all your files in a dir
to utf-8 or any other encoding. you could do this in python or elisp.
For python, see:
• Converting a File's Encoding with Python
http://xahlee.org/perl-python/charset_encoding.html
for elisp, see:
• Emacs Lisp Examples
http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_examples.html
look for the section to-unix-eol there.
You'll need to change the line
(set-buffer-file-coding-system 'unix)
to
(set-buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
on linux, there's a command line tool iconv that does this as well.
Java solution is also there linked in the python page above.
Xah
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