From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: lisp/ChangeLog coding system Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 19:19:11 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200204282319.g3SNJBM13441@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <86g01i8qoa.fsf@gerd.dnsq.org> <200204272241.g3RMfqI05559@aztec.santafe.edu> <6923-Sun28Apr2002212223+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020036284 20480 127.0.0.1 (28 Apr 2002 23:24:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:24:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: keichwa@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 171y28-0005K6-00 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 01:24:44 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 171y5c-0004Kr-00 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 01:28:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 171y1m-0003Qg-00; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 19:24:22 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 171xwo-00033l-00 for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 19:19:14 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3SNJBM13441; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 19:19:11 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: "Eli Zaretskii" Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3362 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3362 > > From: Karl Eichwalder > > Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 05:06:40 +0200 > > > > Richard Stallman writes: > > > > > Michael, if you can figure out precisely how this happened, it might > > > lead us to a way to make the Mule features more robust. Many users > > > might benefit from that. > > > > Probably the known bug. The problem is that Emacs sometimes proposes > > to use a "save" encoding to save a buffer; if the user follows Emacs' > > proposal file corruption starts. > > If you can show examples of such corruption, please do. I'm not aware > of any corruption due to encodings Emacs suggests, although it's true > that the result might surprise sometimes, especially if the user > doesn't know what she is doing. He might be referring to the fact that saving a file with encoding foo when the first line says "-*- coding: bar -*-" will lead to corruption. And more generally if the auto-detection of the coding-system does not agree with the coding-system used when saving the file. But of the course the first question (the one RMS asked IIUC) is why did Emacs not use iso-2202 despite the -*- coding: -*- tag. Stefan