Re: word syntax/umlauts emacs 23 vs 22

[Ralf Fassel]

* Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
| Your "unibyte encoding" is most likely latin-1 or latin-9, so your
| problem now is that Emacs for some reason does not try latin-1 for
| those files that don't use utf-8.

Lets assume Latin-9 (IIRC that is Latin-1 with the Euro-Sign?).

| C-x RET r latin-1 RET should cause the file to be re-read as a latin-1
| file, and it should then be displayed properly.

The file is one line:

    % cat foo.txt
    Herr Müller editiert mit Emacs.
    % od -c foo.txt
    0000000   H   e   r   r       M 374   l   l   e   r       e   d   i   t
    0000020   i   e   r   t       m   i   t       E   m   a   c   s   .  \n
    0000040

If I load that in
  emacs23 -Q ~/tmp/foo.txt
the file is displayed correctly (mode line shows "1:--- foo.txt"),
Umlauts are displayed properly and word movement works.


However, a different, larger (800+kB) file which is also supposed to be
latin-1 displays as "t:--- file", and the single-byte Umlauts are
displayed as octal.  How can I find out why emacs loads this file in 't'
instead of '1'?  A quick search shows only doubled umlauts such as
'Grüße' or öö, but if I add these to foo.txt, emacs still loads foo.txt
as "1:".

Thanks
R'