From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: unencodable-char-position [Re: Several serious problems] Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:06:05 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208121706.g7CH65b06541@wijiji.santafe.edu> References: <200207221711.g6MHBZo02496@aztec.santafe.edu> <200207231335.WAA25692@etlken.m17n.org> <200207240325.g6O3PdX04898@aztec.santafe.edu> <200207240437.NAA26632@etlken.m17n.org> <200207250312.g6P3C9J06653@aztec.santafe.edu> <200208110159.KAA23419@etlken.m17n.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029172059 7144 127.0.0.1 (12 Aug 2002 17:07:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:07:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: spiegel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, d.love@dl.ac.uk Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17eIfI-0001r6-00 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 19:07:36 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17eJ3P-0002Dc-00 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 19:32:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17eIgA-0005NP-00; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:08:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17eIe3-0004rE-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:06:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17eIds-0004nw-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:06:12 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17eIdr-0004nA-00; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:06:07 -0400 Original-Received: from wijiji.santafe.edu (wijiji [192.12.12.5]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7CH6O524992; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:06:24 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by wijiji.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) id g7CH65b06541; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:06:05 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: wijiji.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@wijiji using -f Original-To: handa@etl.go.jp In-Reply-To: <200208110159.KAA23419@etlken.m17n.org> (message from Kenichi Handa on Sun, 11 Aug 2002 10:59:33 +0900 (JST)) 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:6468 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6468 I implemented that and tried on several files. But, it seems that such kind of feature is not that helpful. In the case that the buffer contains many unencodable chars, usually the specified coding system is wrong, and we must use a different coding system. So, it is not that interesting to know where are the other unencodable characters. In the case that the buffer contains a few unencodable chars, as it's seldam that more than one of them appear in one window, highlighting the other unencodable chars is not that useful. These seem like persuasive arguments; it sounds good. How can I make a test case to observe it functioning? I tried but I couldn't get encoding to "fail".