* Re: user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them [not found] ` <un0w3bta9.fsf@icn.siemen.de> @ 2002-04-17 16:04 ` Richard Stallman 2002-04-17 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier 2002-04-17 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii 0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Richard Stallman @ 2002-04-17 16:04 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: emacs-devel 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? Will the switch to native Unicode fix it? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them 2002-04-17 16:04 ` user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them Richard Stallman @ 2002-04-17 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier 2002-04-17 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Stefan Monnier @ 2002-04-17 17:04 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: Heinrich.Rommerskirchen, emacs-devel > 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them 2002-04-17 16:04 ` user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them Richard Stallman 2002-04-17 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier @ 2002-04-17 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2002-04-17 17:18 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: Heinrich.Rommerskirchen, emacs-devel > From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:04:50 -0600 (MDT) > > 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? Help Handa-san make the switch to Unicode ;-) The problem is that the target charset of cp850 is Latin-1, not Latin-9. OTOH, in a Latin-9 language environment, non-ASCII characters typed by the user are by default converted to Latin-9 characters. > Does the change to turn on unify-on-encoding fix this automatically? Yes, as long as the user doesn't type characters that are unique to Latin-1 and to Latin-9 (like if they use both the currency symbol and the Euro symbol in the same buffer). That is, assuming that the result, probably UTF-8, is not what the users expect. > Will the switch to native Unicode fix it? Yes. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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