Re: [AUCTeX] Update: Text corruption

[David Kastrup]

"Axel E. Retif" <address@hidden> writes:

> David,
>
> [...]
>
>> More banal than that, I guess.  Misinterpreting UTF-8 as Latin-1
>> frequently cranks out à (character code 0xc3 in Latin-1 which is the
>> lead-in character for Unicode characters 0xc0 to 0xff).
>
> Indeed ---as I said in my previous reply to Tassilo, I'm accustomed to
> this with files coming from Windows.
>
> I did a good cleaning of these files ---twice in GEdit and TeXworks
> before copy-pasting in Emacs.

Note that even a _single_ byte not presentable by UTF-8 can make Emacs
decide to try a different encoding for the whole file.

-- 
David Kastrup