How to switch back text encoding to UTF-8 with emacs?
If you haven't changed the file, you can try M-x revert-buffer-with-coding-system
. One of latin-1
or utf-8
should work, depending on the file.
You can also mark the entire file with C-x h
and then try M-x recode-region
. It will ask you for Text was really in
and But was interpreted as
. For the first file in your question, it looks like it should be latin-1
and utf-8
, and for the second example it should probably be the other way around, utf-8
and latin-1
.
After you got it right, you can choose which coding system to save the file with using M-x set-buffer-file-coding-system
(or C-x C-m f
for short).