From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Bug: org-mobile "Bad file encoding" [6.33trans] Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:01:23 +0000 Message-ID: <87hbsg8kh8.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <31AD1EC3-473B-4BAF-AF85-41477E5C3287@alexanderonline.org> <12BAC43B-2E3B-4297-B1A5-6C7FCBA408F5@ncogni.to> <8F8BA972-5177-4A16-B8A4-0CFBD7B6EAC7@alexanderonline.org> <0F00222B-8B42-4B37-BA25-9C739F0A75C7@ncogni.to> <1F87941A-07E0-4FA9-869A-C39968D4ABF2@alexanderonline.org> Reply-To: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDvm5-0008Kc-Fl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:01:53 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDvm0-0008Gk-GQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:01:52 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35435 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDvm0-0008Gh-9w for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:01:48 -0500 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:62526) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDvlz-0007Aw-MO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:01:47 -0500 Received: from vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.141]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDvly-0004th-Eu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:01:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1F87941A-07E0-4FA9-869A-C39968D4ABF2@alexanderonline.org> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ben Alexander Cc: org-mode Mailinglist , Ben Alexander At Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:27:06 +0200, Ben Alexander wrote: >=20 > 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 =C2=A3 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: =C2=A3 The =C2=A3 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.