From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Cc: 2317@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2317: emacs silently ignores buffer file encoding?
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:12:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874oxudat2.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
> (1) Start emacs -Q
> (2) Visit "/tmp/fff"
> (3) Insert the following chars: "θϑΘ"
> (4) Set the buffer file encoding to latin1 with: C-x C-m f latin-1 RET
> (5) Save the buffer: C-x C-s
>
> For me, "/tmp/fff" is saved sucessfully, with no error or prompt, using
> an encoding of utf-8 -- despite my having explicitly requested latin-1.
I think this bug may have been fixed. ISTR seeing the same result when
I tested with your recipe a few weeks ago. With latest CVS, however, I
get a "Select coding system" prompt. Can you confirm?
next reply other threads:[~2009-03-15 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-15 16:12 Chong Yidong [this message]
2009-03-17 8:47 ` bug#2317: emacs silently ignores buffer file encoding? Sven Joachim
2009-03-18 7:32 ` Kenichi Handa
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2009-02-12 5:25 Miles Bader
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