Re: utf8

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 01.11.2013 um 10:26 schrieb Denise Chemla:

> each time I want to save my file using ctrl-s,

That cannot work! C-s is bound to incremental-search- or isearch-forward.

> emacs tells me something like "please confirm your encoding is well 
> utf-8-unix" and only after I write all the letters U T F - 8 - U N I X, it 
> saves my work. I am completely tired to type all those letters at each time I 
> save.

You should check the environment variables LANG and LC_ALL. They make GNU Emacs 
choose an encoding that corresponds to their values. It might work to override 
this setting by using in your init file

        (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

BTW, you don't need to repeat the letters "U T F - 8 - U N I X", the second and 
the other times you can use the arrow keys (up or down) to get your preferred 
value back. TAB also allows to expand the word started.

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  Pete

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