Re: Probelm with paste text from web pages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 01:05:41 -0700 (PDT)
> From: twiki <lap7619@yahoo.it>
> Injection-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:05:41 +0000
> 
> When i paste text from Opera/Firefox in a buffer
> and i want to save this buffer...
> i have always to solve this question:
> 
> [...]
> These default coding systems were tried to encode text
> in the buffer `test.txt':
>   (iso-latin-1-dos (72 . 8592) (143 . 8217) (222 . 8217) (251 . 8217)
>   (318 . 8217) (355 . 8217) (458 . 8217) (685 . 8217) (755 . 8217)
>   (960 . 8217) (1021 . 8230))
> However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode:
>   iso-latin-1-dos cannot encode these: ...
> [...]
> 
> How to paste text with apostrophes, accents, etc. for
> to save in iso-latin1-dos?

You can't, not without changing those characters to their equivalents,
and deleting those that don't have equivalents.  These characters
simply don't exist in the Latin-1 character set.

Why do you want to save them in iso-latin1-dos?  What's wrong with
utf-8-dos?