Timeline for How to display file containing old extended-ASCII code-page characters?
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| Nov 3, 2021 at 20:10 | comment | added | PRouleau | OK, I'm busy at the moment and I need to learn more on encoding. I'' learn more on encoding and I'll add an answer that includes what you said and what @aadcg said if that's fine to you both. | |
| Nov 3, 2021 at 19:56 | comment | added | PRouleau | OK, I'm busy ATM but I'll learn more about encoding and if @aadcg is OK with that I'll write something that integrate your answer, his answer and what I have learned. | |
| Nov 3, 2021 at 15:30 | comment | added | NickD | That's fine with me: that's part of how the site works. | |
| Nov 3, 2021 at 12:57 | comment | added | PRouleau | If you don't have time or if you prefer I can try writing something up later. | |
| Nov 3, 2021 at 3:34 | comment | added | NickD | I'll try, but it's going to take me a few days: writing a good answer is different from throwing out crazy suggestions in a comment :-) | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 22:04 | comment | added | PRouleau | @Nick if you turn your answer in using the universal-coding-system-argument command into an answer I'll accept it. | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 21:51 | comment | added | PRouleau | I found out that loading the file in Firefox detects the encoding, which turned out to be GBK (simplified chinese). Knowing the encoding I can then use the method you described to open the file with GBK encoding and then I can tried to read the Chinese just fine ;-) | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 21:38 | comment | added | PRouleau | The file I'm testing this with is a DOS-line termination file. It is identified as iso-8859-1. I presume that file was created with a pre-Unicode coding system most probably in a German speaking country. | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 21:02 | comment | added | NickD | You should also try iso-8859-1. C-x RET c iso8859-1 RET C-x C-f <filename> RET should open it with that coding system. The coding system is indicated on the mode line at left as 1: .With some experience, you can tell what coding system was used, when you open the file with M-x find-file literally or with od -c from the command line and looking at the non-ascii chars. | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 20:06 | answer | added | aadcg | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 2, 2021 at 18:24 | history | asked | PRouleau | CC BY-SA 4.0 |