Re: decode-coding-string question

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:01:07 +0100 David Golden <david.golden@oceanfree.net> 
wrote: 

DG> Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> I often have to open mangled files with mixed-up encodings; it's
>> convenient to set the coding-system after I look at the text, and only
>> apply it to a region.
>> 

DG> M-x recode-region 

DG> also exists (at least in CVS emacs, no idea when it was introduced).

That's exactly what I needed (and it's nicely interactive too).  I did
apropos for 'decod' and didn't see 'recode-*'.

Thanks
Ted