Which coding system should I use in Emacs?
- by Vivi
I am a newbie in Emacs, and I am not a programmer. I have just tried to save a simple *.rtf file with some websites and tips on how to use emacs and I got 
  These default coding systems were
  tried to encode text in the buffer
  `notes.rtf':   (iso-latin-1-dos (315 .
  8216) (338 . 8217) (1514 . 8220) (1525
  . 8221)) However, each of them
  encountered characters it couldn't
  encode:   iso-latin-1-dos cannot
  encode these: ‘ ’ “ ”
  ....
  etc, etc, etc
Now what is that? Now it is asking me to chose an encoding system
  Select coding system (default
  chinese-iso-8bit):
I don't even know what an encoding system is, and I would rather not have to choose one every time I try and save a document... Is there any way I can set an encoding system that will work with all my files so I don't have to worry about this?
I saw another question and asnswer elsewhere in this website (see it here) and it seems that if I type the following
  (defun set-coding-system () (setq
  buffer-file-coding-system
  'utf-8-unix)) (add-hook
  'find-file-hook 'set-coding-system)
then I can have Emacs do this, but I am not sure... Can someone confirm this to me?
Thanks so much  :)