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Problem with coding system


From: Burkhard Schultheis
Subject: Problem with coding system
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:27:17 -0000
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I have several text files with texts from different European languages. The file command tells me that they all are "ISO-8859 text" files. If I load them in Emacs the modeline shows different coding systems: "-" and "-1". Why?

I inserted a file with the modeline "-1" into a file with the modeline "-" and saved the file. Now it shows "-@" in the modeline. Why?

Then I modified this file a little bit. And if I try to save it I get the message:

Select coding system (default utf-8):

And in a help buffer I read:

These default coding systems were tried:
  iso-2022-8bit-ss2-unix iso-latin-1
However, none of them safely encodes the target text.

Select one of the following safe coding systems:
  utf-8 raw-text emacs-mule no-conversion

If all files are iso-8859-1 files I don't understand this behavior of Emacs. Is anyone able to explain it?

I use Emacs 21.3.1 on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.

Thanks in advance!

Regards
Burkhard


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