[SLL] mostly OT: what does this mean on the Emacs mode line?

[Ted Stern]

On 07 Jan 2008 12:40:13 -0800, William Kreuter wrote:
>
> I haven't found an explanation of this in any Emacs FM
> or by googling.
>
> On the left side of the mode line, the place where an
> unsaved file gets two asterisks, some of my files show
> these characters:
>
> -u:--  <filename and the rest of the status line>
>
> What does the "u:" mean?
>
> Billy

The first character before the colon is an abbreviation for the
current buffer's coding system.

    M-x describe-current-coding-system

I suspect those files are in unicode.  Most of mine have "-1:--...",
indicating they are in iso-latin-1.

Ted
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