Denis Bitouzé <denis.bito...@univ-littoral.fr> writes: > Hi, > > several years ago, I already faced the following problem and, > unfortunately, it happened again yesterday, which made me lose quite > some time. > > Let me explain myself: I had a LaTeX file encoded in latin1 that > I wanted to encode in UTF-8. I used an external tool, in this case > `utrac`, which confirmed the starting (latin1) and ending (UTF-8) > encoding. But, when I opened this file in Emacs with AUCTeX enabled, the > accented characters were wrong and it was only when I saw that the file > contained `usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}` that I understood where the > problem came from: changing it in `usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}` solved > it. > > So, here is my request: would it be possible that, for the detection of > the real encoding of the file, AUCTeX relies not on the `inputenc` > package option, but rather on the Emacs heuristics and that, in case of > discrepancy between the two, it issues a warning?
That would be pretty annoying for people working with any Latin-x encoding other than Latin-1 (or in general, any encoding not in Emacs default autodetection set). Emacs showed you what LaTeX would have shown you. -- David Kastrup