Re: encoding problem

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@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

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

which seems to fix the problem for me.  Maybe this will help?

Bernt