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Re: Emacs utf-8 coding system
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Emacs utf-8 coding system |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:42:16 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> writes:
> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Thomas Beresford <number18@spymac.com>
>>> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 05:37:29 -0700
>>>
>>> I wanted to know how can I install the utf-8 coding system in my
>>> emacs 20.7.2, because when I use `M-x list-coding-systems' I don't
>>> get the utf-8 listed here.
>>
>> There was no support for UTF-8 in Emacs 20.x. Please upgrade to
>> Emacs 21.3, the latest version, to get that support.
>
> I have been trying to read .reg files which contain exports of parts
> of a windows registry in emacs, and all I get is junk. I've been
> told that this is because the registry is output in unicode.
> Notepad can read these and so can vim on linux. Is there any way I
> can view these types of files in emacs? Thanks.
There was no support for UTF-8 in Emacs 20.x. Please upgrade to Emacs
21.4, the latest version, to get that support.
I doubt that 5-year old versions of vim can read the files in UTF-8,
either. Emacs 20.7 is just so last-millennium.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum