From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Joseph Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>
Cc: 4869@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4869: 23.1.50; weak documentation of prefer-coding-system
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:47:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5sce70b.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6mmc79m.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> (Joseph Brenner's message of "Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:25:09 -0800")
> The function prefer-coding-system does not explain if the CODING-SYSTEM
> argument must be a symbol or a string (or either).
>
> Without seeing a code example, a user might try using a quoted string:
>
> (prefer-coding-system "utf-8")
>
> In which case, the error message is very confusing (this makes it sound
> as though utf-8 is not supported):
>
> error: Invalid coding system `utf-8'
>
> At a minimum, the documentation should be made more explicit, and I
> would strongly suggest adding a code example:
>
> (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
Why not allow both? Some MULE functions allow a symbol and a string.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-04 21:25 bug#4869: 23.1.50; weak documentation of prefer-coding-system Joseph Brenner
2009-11-06 1:47 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2009-11-06 2:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-06 8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-13 14:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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