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3.8 Using recode within Emacs

The fact recode is a filter makes it quite easy to use from within GNU Emacs. For example, recoding the whole buffer from the IBM-PC charset to current charset (Latin-1 on Unix) is easily done with:

C-x h C-u M-| recode ibmpc RET

`C-x h' selects the whole buffer, and `C-u M-|' filters and replaces the current region through the given shell command. Here is another example, binding the keys `C-c T' to the recoding of the current region from Easy French to Latin-1 (on Unix) and the key `C-u C-c T' from Latin-1 (on Unix) to Easy French:

(global-set-key "\C-cT" 'recode-texte) (defun recode-texte (flag) (interactive "P") (shell-command-on-region (region-beginning) (region-end) (concat "recode " (if flag "..txte" "txte")) t) (exchange-point-and-mark))