Re: Change encoding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Christophe Jorssen <christophe.jorssen@libre.fr.invalid>
> Date: 07 Aug 2009 17:50:59 GMT
> 
> I'd like to know if it is possible to change the encoding of a buffer. 
> For exemple, my buffer is encoded in ansinew and I'd like to recode it in 
> utf-8.

Type "C-x RET f utf-8 RET", and you are done.

> And, by the way, is it possible to "read a file with this encoding", that 
> is automatically convert the encoding of a file when opened (say the file 
> is encoded in ansinew and I'd like to have it in my buffer encoded in 
> utf-8).

No, it's not possible.  Emacs by preserves the encoding of the
original file, and it's easy enough to do what you want with the
command I show above.

Of course, you could also easily enough write a replacement for
find-file which does what you want automatically: change the value of
buffer-file-coding-system after you visit the file.