[OS X Emacs] recognize UTF 8?
José Miguel Figueroa-O'Farrill
j.m.figueroa at ed.ac.uk
Fri Dec 7 12:21:24 EST 2007
On 7 Dec 2007, at 16:40, David Reitter wrote:
> 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.)
>
> Shouldn't it recognize the UTF-8?
>
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/info2www?(emacs)Recognize%20Coding
>
> doesn't say that it can't do it.
>
> I'm asking here because I don't know if this is supposed to work.
> (I know a couple of workarounds myself, -*-coding:-*- and the like,
> - that's not what I am looking for.)
I cannot reproduce this in Aquamacs 1.2.
I create a buffer, I type, "Viel Spaß!" and save it as UTF-8. I kill
the buffer. I then visit the file I created and it is read as UTF-8.
> Would it make sense to have Aquamacs preferentially load everything
> as UTF-8 unless another coding is recognized?
I would not object to this, since all my documents -- even the LaTeX
documents -- are now UTF-8. Other's mileage may vary, however.
Cheers, José
Prof José Figueroa-O'Farrill
School of Mathematics
University of Edinburgh
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