From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: Heinrich.Rommerskirchen@icn.siemen.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:04:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204171704.g3HH4BP29190@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200204171604.g3HG4ob24867@aztec.santafe.edu
> I was in such a situation yesterday. Normally I use latin-1 encoding but
> switched to language environment latin-9 to edit some files containing Euro
> signs and forgot about this change. Then I loaded a 400 line DOS file
> containing "-*- coding: cp850 -*-" in the first line. Emacs encoded all the
> umlauts already in the file as latin-1 but encoded the typed umlauts as
> latin-9. And after minor changes all over the file and a few interruptions
> I didn't remember which parts were changed and which were old ...
>
> Does anyone have an idea for what we should do about this?
> Does the change to turn on unify-on-encoding fix this automatically?
It does fix the above case, yes.
> Will the switch to native Unicode fix it?
It will also fix it.
Stefan
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2002-04-17 16:04 ` user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them Richard Stallman
2002-04-17 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-04-17 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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