Re: How to add the encoding in the emacs window?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 02.12.2007 um 10:45 schrieb avilella:

> I would like to know if it is possible to have the encoding specified
> in a given emacs window:

No. The encoding is a property of the buffer. It's shown at the  
beginning, the left-most edge, of the mode-line. You can select with  
the mouse cursor that symbol and a *Help* buffer will explain what  
the encoding is.

If you mean how to set an encoding preference for GNU Emacs, you  
might start with setting environment  variables like LC_CTYPE. From  
its value GNU Emacs will set an internal preference for buffer  
encodings – but it won't be strict since internal settings (like file- 
coding-system-alist, network-coding-system-alist, process-coding- 
system-alist, auto-coding-alist ...) pre-define a lot.

You can go further and put into your user init file code that reads  
LC_CTYPE (or a synthetic environment variable of your own) and then  
modifies such lists, and which also emits a

        (prefer-coding-system '<some value>)

There are also buffer local variables which can be added at the top  
of the file or its bottom. Examples for top:

        ;;; -*- mode: Emacs-Lisp; coding: utf-8; -*-

and bottom:

        %%% Local Variables:
        %%% mode: latex
        %%% TeX-master: t
        %%% coding: utf-8-unix
        %%% TeX-command-default: "XeLaTeXx"
        %%% End:


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