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: Several serious problems Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 00:41:28 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208090441.g794fSh10970@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200207221711.g6MHBZo02496@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1028868096 1852 127.0.0.1 (9 Aug 2002 04:41:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 04:41:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17d1ag-0000Tl-00 for ; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 06:41:34 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17d1x6-0002eh-00 for ; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 07:04:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17d1bC-000210-00; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 00:42:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17d1aa-0001zK-00; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 00:41:28 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g794fSh10970; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 00:41:28 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Richard Stallman Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:6373 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6373 > I cannot save the file lisp/ChangeLog. It specifies coding system > iso-2022-7bit, but it contains something that cannot be encoded in that > coding system. I don't know any way to find the text that causes the > problem; essentially I am helpless. > > Handa-san, would you please clean up whatever is wrong with that file > so that it can save properly once again? > > We MUST do something to make it easier for users to cope with such a > situation. We talked about this a few weeks ago but nothing was done. Dave Love has code for it (and has posted it here). I can't check it in, so could someone else take care of it ? Stefan "who pleads guilty of delaying this patch"