Re: umlaute not recognized

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 20.12.2010 um 13:57 schrieb ken:

> I then see a 'U' in the second column of the status line.  Sometimes
> there are characters in the file which are not UTF-8 and so which  
> don't
> display properly; they appear as '\366' or suchlike... a backslash  
> and a
> three-digit number.  Attempting to save the file, I'm queried about
> them.  But I do a search-and-replace on these and when they're all
> removed, the file is properly saved in UTF-8.


You could as well undo all editing or kill that buffer at once without  
saving, reopen it in the correct encoding, add the "header line" with  
the local variable settings, and then choose an UTF-8 encoding for  
saving! (Try it!)

Or you could use recode or iconv to change the file's encoding...

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  Pete

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