At Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:27:06 +0200, Ben Alexander wrote: > > Well, the problem came back :-(
Sorry to hear that. Annoying. > Clearly there is some emacs magic going on here, because I thought of > trying the £ symbol, but in another, smaller, file, and when I tried > to save the file, I was told: > These default coding systems were tried to encode text > in the buffer `birthdays.org': > iso-8859-2-unix > However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode: > iso-8859-2-unix cannot encode these: £ The £ symbol is available in 8859-1 but not -2 unfortunately. > I thought the earlier emacs code specified utf-8 as the default coding > system I find the whole coding system in Emacs beyond comprehension, having been fighting it for a long time now. With respect to org, although not necessarily for mobile org, I have solved all my problems by putting the following line as the first line of every single org file I have: # -*- coding: utf-8; -*- (not indented) All my problems have disappeared even though this is not a recommended solution, from what I understand. HTH. _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
