Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Gro.AN_johann) writes:
>
>> Why doesn't it allow me to use utf-8?
>
> This works fine:
>
> (decode-coding-string
>  (encode-coding-string "Japanese ($BF|K\8l(B)" 'utf-8) 'utf-8)
>
> So, it seems to suggest that Emacs *is* able to encode it as UTF-8.

So where is the problem?  Why doesn't Emacs save the file in UTF-8?

I've now done the following test: I copied and yanked the Chinese
line into a buffer and then ran (encode-coding-region (point-min)
(point-max) 'utf-8) and that gave me some output.

So it appears that I can also see that Emacs can convert this into
UTF-8, but still it doesn't use UTF-8 for saving to a file.  Weird.

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