Comments on: Working with Coding Systems and Unicode in Emacs http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2012/08/09/working-coding-systems-unicode-emacs/ a blog about mastering the world's best text editor Fri, 17 May 2013 21:26:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Josh http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2012/08/09/working-coding-systems-unicode-emacs/#comment-17253 Josh Mon, 19 Nov 2012 02:39:17 +0000 http://www.masteringemacs.org/?p=556#comment-17253 Thanks for writing this article, Mickey. I love your blog.

I’m trying to learn about coding systems, and I’m wondering why you called set-default-coding-systems, set-terminal-coding-system, and set-keyboard-coding-system after calling prefer-coding-system. Doesn’t prefer-coding-system call set-default-coding-systems, which sets buffer-file-coding-system, default-terminal-coding-system, and default-keyboard-coding-system?

Thanks again for your help.

]]> By: mickey http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2012/08/09/working-coding-systems-unicode-emacs/#comment-13539 mickey Sat, 18 Aug 2012 12:16:07 +0000 http://www.masteringemacs.org/?p=556#comment-13539 Thanks for catching my schoolboy errors, jpkotta!

]]> By: Emacs Coding Systems | Irreal http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2012/08/09/working-coding-systems-unicode-emacs/#comment-13532 Emacs Coding Systems | Irreal Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:34:01 +0000 http://www.masteringemacs.org/?p=556#comment-13532 [...] incomparable Mickey over at Mastering Emacs has an excellent post on how to deal with coding systems in Emacs. If you find yourself needing to use alternate (meaning non-UTF-8) coding systems this post has the [...]

]]> By: jpkotta http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2012/08/09/working-coding-systems-unicode-emacs/#comment-13126 jpkotta Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:11:17 +0000 http://www.masteringemacs.org/?p=556#comment-13126 Also, buffer-file-coding-system is buffer local, so you want setq-default instead of setq.

]]> By: jpkotta http://www.masteringemacs.org/articles/2012/08/09/working-coding-systems-unicode-emacs/#comment-13125 jpkotta Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:10:00 +0000 http://www.masteringemacs.org/?p=556#comment-13125 The argument of boundp should be a symbol, which means you want to quote it in this case: (boundp ‘buffer-file-coding-system).

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