* Can emacs pick proper coding system intelligently?
@ 2008-04-28 0:06 Scott Heftler
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From: Scott Heftler @ 2008-04-28 0:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: info-gnus-english
Yesterday I had a problem. I would read a RMAIL-mode file saved via
`gnus-summary-save-in-rmail' and the ellipses would be escape-quoted
and display as \205.
I was told that I needed to find the file using windows-1252 as my
coding system. Now the windows-1252 ellipses display nicely when I
run `universal-coding-system-argument' (C-x RET c windows-1252) before
finding the file.
You'd think that, when emacs encounters these \205s, it would KNOW to
pick windows-1252. But it doesn't. I put these in my init file to
help it along:
(prefer-coding-system 'windows-1252)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
This makes sure utf-8 is top pick, and windows-1252 is second. This
did nothing.
Is there no way to AUTOMATE emacs' pick of coding system? I thought
it chose coding systems intelligently, based on file contents? Do I
really have to open a file, see escape-quoted characters, guess what
coding system I should use, close the file, and then reopen it using
`C-x RET c' in a trial-and-error fashion?
-- Scott
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