Rodney Sparapani wrote: If you open a file with "C-u C-x C-f" (or "C-u f" in dired), you will be prompted for the coding system. -- Glynn Clements <glynn(a)gclements.plus.com&gt;

Rodney> However, I was wondering if there was a simple way or a Rodney> plan to support something like the following: Rodney> -*- cyrillic-iso8859-5 text -*- They're sorta supported already, but it's a basically bad idea, because sorta support is the best that can be done. For one-shot use, use C-u C-x C-f and friends as Glynn mentions. If you get mojibake (Japanese for "changed characters", means characters interpreted as a different encoding from what you expect), this command could come in handy: (defun recode-region (begin end from-coding to-coding) (interactive "r\nzCurrent coding (null for default)\nzDesired coding") (encode-coding-region begin end (or from-coding buffer-file-coding-system)) (decode-coding-region begin end to-coding) (if (y-or-n-p (format "You likee codee %s? " (coding-system-name to-coding))) (set-buffer-file-coding-system to-coding) (revert-buffer))) You need to set the region first. If you're not sure you can try a small region, otherwise prefix with C-x h for the whole buffer. The buffer-modified flag will be set; don't save unless you know what you're doing. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.