From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
4712@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: ezander@valkyrie.sc.cs.tu-bs.de, schwab@linux-m68k.org
Subject: bug#4712: File encoding
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:04:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1My4Sh-0001hr-OH@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvvdii6r9l.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:27:33 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:27:33 -0400
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Elmar Zander <ezander@valkyrie.sc.cs.tu-bs.de>,
> 4712@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
>
> > That means that the buffer contains characters that cannot be encoded in
> > iso-8859-1-unix.
>
> Indeed, but the error message we output is completely unhelpful.
> Rather than select utf-8 and then complain that the tag doesn't match,
> we should say upfront, that the selected latin-1 can't encode all the
> chars in the buffer (and that message can come with the usual thingy
> that shows the offending chars and their location).
Maybe so, but this part of the OP's report:
value of $LANG: en_AU.UTF-8
locale-coding-system: utf-8
indicates that UTF-8 is the "native" encoding on the OP's machine, and
there is an overwhelming user demand for silently and transparently
switch to such a native encoding when we need to select an encoding.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-14 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-13 9:12 bug#4712: File encoding Elmar Zander
2009-10-14 9:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-10-14 13:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-14 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-10-14 14:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-10-14 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-14 15:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-14 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-15 3:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-15 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-15 9:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-10-17 4:01 ` Stefan Monnier
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