Re: The text coding sytem for Emacs

[Water Lin]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Water Lin <WaterLin@ymail.invalid>
>> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:30:27 +0800
>> 
>> 
>> I re-install my Windows XP system. But after I start Emacs, it treats my
>> text file as iso-latin-1-unix. But actually the coding system should be
>> utf-8. So Emacs shows the text as a mess.
>
> What version of Emacs is that?  With Emacs 23.1 I think this shouldn't
> happen (barring some rare bug).  If you don't have Emacs 23.1, can you
> upgrade?
>
>> How can I let Emacs to treat text file as UTF-8 by default?
>
> For this file only, or for all files?
>
> For the latter `(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)' in your .emacs should
> do, I think.  For the former, you can add a `coding:' cookie to the
> file.
>
>

Yes, I am using Emacs 23.1. I fix this problem by adding
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
to my .emacs file.

Thanks

Water Lin

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