[OS X Emacs] Migration from TeXShop to Aquamacs Emacs

Peter Dyballa Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE
Wed Jul 2 10:33:17 EDT 2008


Am 02.07.2008 um 16:08 schrieb kbmail:

> I wonder why Aquamacs doesn't automaticaly guess mac-roman encoding  
> ('M' in mode line)... since Aquamacs is good at detecting utf-8  
> ('u' in mode line) or iso-latin-1 ('1' in mode line) text encodings?


No Emacs variant is good in guessing. There are some rules that  
determine the type of a file (based on its extension). The defaults  
for text files are derived from environment variables like LC_CTYPE.  
To see them you can create a *shell* buffer in Emacs and invoke env  
or printenv there.

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