From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: ediff and coding systems Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:21:10 -0700 Message-ID: <200710201521.l9KFLCWK004756@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192893832 17537 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2007 15:23:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:23:52 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 20 17:23:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IjGB3-0002BR-4V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:23:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjGAv-00075c-NL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:23:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjGAr-00073Z-OR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjGAr-00072x-5V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjGAr-00072n-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:23:37 -0400 Original-Received: from oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjGAq-0001YK-HW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:23:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9KFLCWK004756 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:21:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Lines: 28 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81304 Archived-At: lisp/term/mac-win.el from CVS trunk uses: -*-coding: iso-2022-7bit;-*- and the same file on the emacs-unicode-2 uses: -*-coding: utf-8 When doing M-x ediff for the above 2 files a *Warning* buffer pops up for each hunk: These default coding systems were tried to encode text in the buffer ` *ediff-tmp*': iso-latin-1 However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode: iso-latin-1 cannot encode these: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ... Click on a character (or switch to this window by `C-x o' and select the characters by RET) to jump to the place it appears, where `C-u C-x =' will give information about it. Select one of the safe coding systems listed below, or cancel the writing with C-g and edit the buffer to remove or modify the problematic characters, or specify any other coding system (and risk losing the problematic characters). utf-8 utf-16 utf-16 utf-16 utf-16be utf-16le iso-2022-7bit with the question "Select coding system (default mule-utf-8):" Would it be possible for ediff to avoid this?