From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Saving when the coding system can't code all buffer characters Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:40:53 +0100 Message-ID: <458B0D75.9010204@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166740892 25056 80.91.229.10 (21 Dec 2006 22:41:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:41:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 21 23:41:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GxWbS-0000Om-9N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:41:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxWbR-0005gP-Rz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:41:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxWau-0005O0-3J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:40:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GxWas-0005MS-Fa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:40:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GxWas-0005ME-9K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:40:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.212] (helo=ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GxWar-0003Vy-VZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:40:54 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:62519 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GxWaq-0000eh-3p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:40:52 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: Emacs Devel X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0661-1, 2006-12-21), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1GxWaq-0000eh-3p. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1GxWaq-0000eh-3p 4cb812887a2f7e46c756e6dfcb8fbe90 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:64070 Archived-At: After a paste of some info to an Emacs buffer I got this message when trying to save the buffer: These default coding systems were tried to encode text in the buffer `temp-lang.c': iso-latin-1-dos However, each of them encountered these problematic characters: iso-latin-1-dos: ’ The first problematic character is at point in the displayed buffer, and C-u C-x = will give information about it. At the prompt "Select coding system (default mule-utf-8):" this just gives information about the minibuffer. And when using C-g to quit the problematic character disappears from screen. Quite inconvenient IMHO. Could it be made a bit easier to use please?