Re: Opening file in UTF-8 mode automatically

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Zhang Wei <id.brep@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:30:23 +0800
> 
> "spamfilteraccount@gmail.com" <spamfilteraccount@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >   default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil
> 
> I think this variable should be set to "t" to open a utf-8 file.

Yes, of course!

To the OP: why are you running Emacs in the unibyte mode?  Does the
problem go away if you invoke Emacs with "emacs -Q"?