Bernt Hansen <be...@norang.ca> writes: > Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizol...@free.fr> writes: > >> I'm having a very strange problem with character encoding. I write all >> my text files with emacs, with non-ascii characters (I'm french). I keep >> a copy of many files (latex/org/...) on separate machines using >> unison. Very often after a synchronization, the non-ascii charaters are >> completely displayed wrong (à for à, ç for ç) in the org files, but >> never in the latex files. >> >> I guess it's more an Emacs than org files but I can't see what's special >> in the org files that makes them more prone to such errors. >> >> Is there a way to *fix* easily these corruptions on a file, ie searching >> for all "weird" characters to replace ? >> >> How could I prevent this from happening again (checking/changing >> character encoding maybe ?) >> >> Thanks for your help, >> >> Julien. > > Hi Julien, > > I get prompts for encoding when saving/exporting (on Windows only) so I > put the following at the top of my org-files > > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > > which seems to fix the problem for me. Maybe this will help?
I used to have this problem and it was incredibly annoying. I also started adding the line Bernt suggests but I kept forgetting for new files. I finally solved this problem by adding the following lines to my emacs initialisation: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-charset-priority 'unicode) (setq default-process-coding-system '(utf-8-unix . utf-8-unix)) #+end_src I couldn't tell you which of these matter or whether they are all necessary but I don't have these problems any longer so I haven't investigated any further! -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.1.50.1 : using Org release_7.8.10-630-g4144c5.dirty
