[OS X Emacs] recognize UTF 8?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.12.2007 um 17:40 schrieb David Reitter:

> When I save a file as UTF-8 (containing the beta character as the  
> only non-ASCII character), it doesn't seem to be recognized when  
> loading (it is loaded as iso-latin-1-unix, which is the first  
> choice according to the priorities.)


This would only work as described when the beta is a German ess-zett,  
ß (LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S), at U+00DF. GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA  
(β) is at U+03B2. In UTF-8 ß is encoded as C3 9F, or à <an 8-bit  
control character>; β is encoded as CE B2, or Î ². Do you see any  
of these characters when you open the file in ISO LATIN-1? If not,  
then saving in the new encoding failed ... (and I am experienced in  
choosing the wrong encodings to provoke failures)

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   Pete

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