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Re: reading binary, non-unix file
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Kevin Rodgers |
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Re: reading binary, non-unix file |
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Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:55:32 -0600 |
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Mickey Ferguson wrote:
> We're almost there. I don't have a single UTF-16 coding choice. When I
> tried what you provided, I saw:
>
> Possible completions are:
> utf-16-be utf-16-be-dos
> utf-16-be-mac utf-16-be-unix
> utf-16-le utf-16-le-dos
> utf-16-le-mac utf-16-le-unix
>
> I chose utf-16-le and it seemed to do it properly. I just don't know if
> that was the right choice - I don't fully understand what each of these
> provides.
LE = Little Endian and BE = Big Endian. Emacs should provide an
encoding in which the endianness is determined from the BOM, but since
it doesn't, utf-16-le is right for x86 processors. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16
> Second, after I determine which one of the above to use, can anyone
help me
> to write a function so that I can then map a key combination (similar
to C-X
> C-F uses Find-File), that will load in the proper coding and then
find the
> file? I'm lisp-impaired, so any help would be appreciated. I'm
capable of
> taking an interactive function that's been defined and mapping it to a
> keystroke, but that's about it.
What's wrong with `C-x RET c utf-16-le RET C-x C-f' :-)
If all the files are UTF-16 on your system, perhaps you can just put
this in your .emacs file:
(setq-default buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-16-le)
--
Kevin Rodgers
- Re: reading binary, non-unix file, (continued)
- Re: reading binary, non-unix file, Mathias Dahl, 2004/10/25
- Re: reading binary, non-unix file, Mickey Ferguson, 2004/10/25
- Re: reading binary, non-unix file, Daniel Pittman, 2004/10/25
- Re: reading binary, non-unix file, Mathias Dahl, 2004/10/26
- Re: reading binary, non-unix file, Mickey Ferguson, 2004/10/26
- Re: reading binary, non-unix file, Mathias Dahl, 2004/10/27
- Re: reading binary, non-unix file, Mickey Ferguson, 2004/10/27
- RE: reading binary, non-unix file, Drew Adams, 2004/10/27
- Re: reading binary, non-unix file, Reiner Steib, 2004/10/27
- Re: reading binary, non-unix file, Mickey Ferguson, 2004/10/26
- Re: reading binary, non-unix file,
Kevin Rodgers <=
Re: reading binary, non-unix file, Daniel Pittman, 2004/10/23