From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: unibyte buffers won't display latin-1 characters Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:28:42 -0400 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208291628.g7TGSgm29010@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030638509 6331 127.0.0.1 (29 Aug 2002 16:28:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:28:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dvdkhlng@gmx.de, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17kS9g-0001dQ-00 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:28:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17kSB4-0004Rx-00; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:29:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17kSA5-0004Nc-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:28:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17kSA3-0004NP-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:28:48 -0400 Original-Received: from consort.superb.net ([209.61.216.22] helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17kSA3-0004NL-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:28:47 -0400 Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7TGSgm29010; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 12:28:42 -0400 Original-To: handa@etl.go.jp Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:3357 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:3357 Karl, the comment of cyrpt++.el says that you are the maintainer. Although I've been looking for a replacement for years :). Do you know how to fix this problem? Unfortunately I do not. Since compressed (or encrypted files) are arbitrary binary data, I don't know any way to read them except with 'no-conversion, which I assume is what stops the translation into a multibyte buffer. I got bug reports about random failures for quite a while before I realized emacs had not maintained backward compatibility on reading/writing files and additional settings had to be made now. So the 'no-conversion stuff is necessary in that respect. When I looked at the emacs code a while ago, it had a bunch of random heuristics about determining whether a file was binary or some multibyte coding system, and those heuristics were failing. (I reported a bug about this at that time.) Anyway, at this point, I suggest that crypt++ not be loaded by default and probably not be used at all. The builtin (un)compression and line-ending support in emacs should suffice. Thanks, k