When I open a buffer in Emacs containing a German Umlaut (the word "Präsentation" occurs in a string), Emacs automatically converts it to a different encoding as soon as I save the file.
How can I tell Emacs to leave the encoding alone?
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A:
M-x set-buffer-file-coding-system is what you are looking for.
You might also have a look at http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/emacs_221.html.
phimuemue
2010-07-30 10:25:10
Thx for the answer. This command sets the encoding explicitly, but I want to leave the encoding as it is, I think that's a different problem. And I want to avoid having to execute a command whenever I encounter a buffer containing "special" characters. Could the real problem be that Emacs initially guesses the file's encoding incorrectly? Maybe setting `file-coding-system-alist` properly could help ...
jellybean
2010-07-30 10:48:22
A:
I don't know whether its a bug in stackoverflow, or you really mean you see an A~ and universal currency symbol in Emacs. If the problem is Emacs displaying the wrong characters, then the following might help:
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
JSON
2010-08-02 03:49:36