Encoding issue for French text

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My problem: With my Emacs 26.1 on my 10.13.6 Mac, I have a opened a third-party text file, and it turns out I have the wrong encoding set : the text is in French , and the accentuated characters are displayed incorrectly (thus "é" is displayed as a brown 216, "î" as a brown 224, etc).



What I tried : I tried



M-x revert-buffer-with-coding-system latin-1 and
M-x revert-buffer-with-coding-system utf-8 emacs
and nothing changed in the display.



I also tried (and failed) to guess the encoding : it must be an encoding in which "é" is the 216th character. Now é is U+00E9 in Unicode, which gives 233 in decimal. Also é is number 130 in extended ASCII.






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  • That 216 is in octal => 142 decimal (but I have no clue which encoding it's using). It's not cp863 either.
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My problem: With my Emacs 26.1 on my 10.13.6 Mac, I have a opened a third-party text file, and it turns out I have the wrong encoding set : the text is in French , and the accentuated characters are displayed incorrectly (thus "é" is displayed as a brown 216, "î" as a brown 224, etc).



What I tried : I tried



M-x revert-buffer-with-coding-system latin-1 and
M-x revert-buffer-with-coding-system utf-8 emacs
and nothing changed in the display.



I also tried (and failed) to guess the encoding : it must be an encoding in which "é" is the 216th character. Now é is U+00E9 in Unicode, which gives 233 in decimal. Also é is number 130 in extended ASCII.






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  • That 216 is in octal => 142 decimal (but I have no clue which encoding it's using). It's not cp863 either.
    – rpluim
    2 hours ago












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My problem: With my Emacs 26.1 on my 10.13.6 Mac, I have a opened a third-party text file, and it turns out I have the wrong encoding set : the text is in French , and the accentuated characters are displayed incorrectly (thus "é" is displayed as a brown 216, "î" as a brown 224, etc).



What I tried : I tried



M-x revert-buffer-with-coding-system latin-1 and
M-x revert-buffer-with-coding-system utf-8 emacs
and nothing changed in the display.



I also tried (and failed) to guess the encoding : it must be an encoding in which "é" is the 216th character. Now é is U+00E9 in Unicode, which gives 233 in decimal. Also é is number 130 in extended ASCII.






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My problem: With my Emacs 26.1 on my 10.13.6 Mac, I have a opened a third-party text file, and it turns out I have the wrong encoding set : the text is in French , and the accentuated characters are displayed incorrectly (thus "é" is displayed as a brown 216, "î" as a brown 224, etc).



What I tried : I tried



M-x revert-buffer-with-coding-system latin-1 and
M-x revert-buffer-with-coding-system utf-8 emacs
and nothing changed in the display.



I also tried (and failed) to guess the encoding : it must be an encoding in which "é" is the 216th character. Now é is U+00E9 in Unicode, which gives 233 in decimal. Also é is number 130 in extended ASCII.






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  • That 216 is in octal => 142 decimal (but I have no clue which encoding it's using). It's not cp863 either.
    – rpluim
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  • That 216 is in octal => 142 decimal (but I have no clue which encoding it's using). It's not cp863 either.
    – rpluim
    2 hours ago















That 216 is in octal => 142 decimal (but I have no clue which encoding it's using). It's not cp863 either.
– rpluim
2 hours ago




That 216 is in octal => 142 decimal (but I have no clue which encoding it's using). It's not cp863 either.
– rpluim
2 hours ago










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This is the MacRoman encoding, a legacy encoding from the pre-OSX days of Mac OS. It is available in Emacs as mac-roman.



C-x RET r mac-roman RET yes RET



You may need to select mac-roman-mac, mac-roman-dos or mac-roman-unix explicitly if Emacs doesn't automatically detect the representation of line endings. The mac-roman part is for the encoding of non-ASCII characters.






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    This is the MacRoman encoding, a legacy encoding from the pre-OSX days of Mac OS. It is available in Emacs as mac-roman.



    C-x RET r mac-roman RET yes RET



    You may need to select mac-roman-mac, mac-roman-dos or mac-roman-unix explicitly if Emacs doesn't automatically detect the representation of line endings. The mac-roman part is for the encoding of non-ASCII characters.






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      This is the MacRoman encoding, a legacy encoding from the pre-OSX days of Mac OS. It is available in Emacs as mac-roman.



      C-x RET r mac-roman RET yes RET



      You may need to select mac-roman-mac, mac-roman-dos or mac-roman-unix explicitly if Emacs doesn't automatically detect the representation of line endings. The mac-roman part is for the encoding of non-ASCII characters.






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        This is the MacRoman encoding, a legacy encoding from the pre-OSX days of Mac OS. It is available in Emacs as mac-roman.



        C-x RET r mac-roman RET yes RET



        You may need to select mac-roman-mac, mac-roman-dos or mac-roman-unix explicitly if Emacs doesn't automatically detect the representation of line endings. The mac-roman part is for the encoding of non-ASCII characters.






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        This is the MacRoman encoding, a legacy encoding from the pre-OSX days of Mac OS. It is available in Emacs as mac-roman.



        C-x RET r mac-roman RET yes RET



        You may need to select mac-roman-mac, mac-roman-dos or mac-roman-unix explicitly if Emacs doesn't automatically detect the representation of line endings. The mac-roman part is for the encoding of non-ASCII characters.







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