Re: problems displaying utf-8-characters after reload

[B. T. Raven]

Die Mon Sep 24 2012 16:02:15 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) Eli
Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> scripsit:

>> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:23:41 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: LanX <lanx.perl@googlemail.com>
>>
>> I was able to reproduce the problem with that special file using emacs -Q.
>>
>> describe-coding-system shows utf-8-unix
>>
>> Any ideas what to do?
> 
> "C-x RET c latin-1 RET C-x C-f"
> 
> Or if want Emacs to do this automatically, put a 'coding:' cookie in
> the file.
> 


This has always worked for me. I don't think there is a bug but there is
a residual mystery:

Why aren't the following exactly synonymous (as the descriptions would
lead us to believe):

C-x RET c latin-1 RET C-x C-f
C-x RET f latin-1 RET

I've found that the second one doesn't always work.

Btw, the coding cookie is:

;; -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

in first line or first eight lines of file, I can't remember which.

Ed