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Re: foreign characters
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
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Re: foreign characters |
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Mon, 07 May 2012 23:46:55 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) |
prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com> writes:
> what can i do to have emacs substitute the correct letter representation
> instead of looking at \351?
1- ask the remote to send you UTF-8. It's the de-facto norm.
2.1- save the file as raw-text: C-x RET c raw-text reT C-x C-w file.txt RET
2.2- kill the buffer. C-x k
2.3- open the file in the right encoding: C-x RET c RIGHT-ENCODING C-x C-f
file.txt RET
Now the problem of course is to know what's the right encoding! :-)
There are a lot of encodings where \351 <-> é. But you may try
iso-8859-1 to start with. (That said they don't use iso-8859-1 on
MS-Windows).
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__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
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