Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> writes: > >> Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizol...@free.fr> writes: >> >>> I'm having a very strange problem with character encoding. I write all >>> my text files with emacs, with non-ascii characters (I'm french). I keep >>> a copy of many files (latex/org/...) on separate machines using >>> unison. Very often after a synchronization, the non-ascii charaters are >>> completely displayed wrong (à for à, ç for ç) in the org files, but >>> never in the latex files. >>> >>> I guess it's more an Emacs than org files but I can't see what's special >>> in the org files that makes them more prone to such errors. >>> >>> Is there a way to *fix* easily these corruptions on a file, ie searching >>> for all "weird" characters to replace ? >>> >>> How could I prevent this from happening again (checking/changing >>> character encoding maybe ?) >>> >>> Thanks for your help, >>> >>> Julien. >> >> Hi Julien, >> >> I get prompts for encoding when saving/exporting (on Windows only) so I >> put the following at the top of my org-files >> >> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- >> >> which seems to fix the problem for me. Maybe this will help? > > I used to have this problem and it was incredibly annoying. I also > started adding the line Bernt suggests but I kept forgetting for new > files. I finally solved this problem by adding the following lines to > my emacs initialisation: > > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) > (set-charset-priority 'unicode) > (setq default-process-coding-system '(utf-8-unix . utf-8-unix)) > #+end_src > > I couldn't tell you which of these matter or whether they are all > necessary but I don't have these problems any longer so I haven't > investigated any further!
Thanks Eric! I'll try this and drop my mode line setting in each org file. I still encounter this when archiving for the first time to a new file -- since I'm archive utf-8 content and the new target org file prompts for encoding with my current setup. Regards, Bernt