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: unencodable-char-position [Re: Several serious problems] Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:15:53 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200208121715.g7CHFrw29709@rum.cs.yale.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> <200208121706.g7CH65b06541@wijiji.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029172528 8860 127.0.0.1 (12 Aug 2002 17:15:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:15:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@etl.go.jp, 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 17eImt-0002In-00 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 19:15:27 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17eJB0-0002SR-00 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 19:40:22 +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 17eInk-000731-00; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:16:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17eInN-0006wd-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:15:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17eInL-0006wR-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:15:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17eInK-0006w9-00; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:15:54 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7CHFrw29709; Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:15:53 -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:6472 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:6472 > 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". Try to save the HELLO file in utf-8. Stefan