hendrik writes: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:31:25AM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> > > On 12.11.06 14:52, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: >> > > > Hi. I have a lots ascii file with ecoding iso-8859-* and I must >> > > > convert those in UTF-8. How? >> >> > On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:06:44AM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> > > iconv -f <src-encoding> -t <dst-encoding> <inputfile> > outputfile. >> > > >> > > There is also 'recode' package, however I found it a bit >> > > redundant, since iconv (part of libc6) has this functionality >> >> On 13.11.06 09:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > And after you've has converted such a file, how can you tell emacs that >> > it is supposed to recognise the new encoding? >> >> pardon?
> This is an emacs-specific add-on question. If it has seen a file in one > encoding system, and I run a program to change it to another (in my > case, getting my accented letters converted from the old 8-bit encoding > into UTF-8) emacs insists on continuing to read it as if it were in the > old encoding, so my accented characters, which have been expanded into > two bytes each, show up in the editor as two gibberish characters each. C-x RET r utf-8 RET should force emacs to read the file using the utf-8 coding system. -- -- Jhair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
