Re: Can't make emacs use utf-8?? (on WinXP)

[Bjoern]

Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
[...]

> But I can't seem to convert my existing files. If I convert them to
> > utf-8 (or mule-utf-8 ?) with C-x RET f utf-8 and save them, their
> > encoding is still 'undecided-dos' when I reopen them.
>  
> Are there any characters in those files that would need converting?

Sometimes. I guess I can with the current state now - if press some 
non-ASCII keys, the encoding switched to utf-8 immediately. It turned 
out the real problem was with my webserver (Tomcat) and the JSTL that 
refuse to set a UTF encoding.

[...]

> > However I tried writing a HelloWorld.java from scratch, and again it
> > didn't work.
>
>
> Java files should be plain ASCII, if at all possible.  HTML files can
> be in UTF-8, but than they should declare the encoding in a <meta>
> element.

But wasn't Java the first programming language to promote Unicode? I 
haven't tried it yet, as untill yesterday I really stuck to ASCII.

[...]

> > I'm really confused - how can undecided-dos happen at all, if utf-8
> > is first in the priority list?
>
>
> Good question.  I would expect that for plain ASCII, but you say that
> a plain ASCII file got utf-8 assigned on opening, so that can't be it.

That's still puzzling me, but it's not so important at the moment.

Thanks for all the help, everyone!


Bjoern