Re: Emacs file coding problem


<jwb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:QKmse.19451$F7.17546@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Danny Wilde <fuzakenbo@xxxxxxxxxxx> dixit:
I'm trying to convert a file written in Japanese EUC to UTF-8 by saving it
using a recent version of Gnu Emacs. Every time I try to save the file,
Emacs says that it can't do so or it failed to do so (sorry I'm posting from
windows so I can't quote the error message exactly). Does anyone have any
experience of anything like this with Emacs? 

I'd use iconv:

iconv -f EUC-JP -t UTF-8 from_file to_file

Thank you for your advice. That sounds like a useful utility. The problem is that I would also like to edit the output file in UTF-8. I'll try converting it as you suggest and then see if Emacs will behave itself with the new file. The problem is that I need to mix various encodings together, so EUC-JP is frustrating.

Danny.

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