[Python-markdown-discuss] Linux, emacs, file encoding

[Dave P. <dav...@gm...>]

I've a few Unicode utf-8 characters in a md file.
I set the emacs buffer to Unix, utf-8
but when I save the file, a script 'convert-markdown.sh'
seems to be called and the buffer is converted to DOS

Is it possible to stop this please?

error is

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/files/python/mymarkdown.py", line 13, in <module>
    text = input_file.read()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/codecs.py", line 668, in read
    return self.reader.read(size)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/codecs.py", line 474, in read
    newchars, decodedbytes = self.decode(data, self.errors)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb1 in position
4999: invalid start byte

regards

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