Re: address@hidden: Coding problem with Euro sign]

[Kevin Rodgers]

Ralf Angeli wrote:
> * Kevin Rodgers (2005-12-14) writes:
> > I think the OP is confused: 
>
> Was confused.  That was cleared up on emacs-pretest-bug.

Good!  I hope you didn't take offense at my remark.

> > And the OP should try visiting the file with the cp1252 coding system.
>
> Well, the question now is if it is possible for Emacs to figure out
> the coding system on itself with the example at hand.

You could try something like this:

(setq auto-coding-regexp-alist
      (cons '("[\040-\177][\200-\237]" . cp1252)
            auto-coding-regexp-alist))

I don't think that's a general purpose solution since (1)
auto-coding-regexp-alist actually has precedence over `-*-coding:-*-'
file variables and (2) other encodings probably use those o200 - o237
bytes (certainly other Microsoft Windows code pages do).

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Kevin Rodgers