Re: converting between charsets

[Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@myxomop.com>]

>>>>> On Sat, 13 May 2006 23:20:03 -0400
>>>>> "SM" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
SM> 
SM> Please explain why you think there is relation between those things and
SM> encode-coding-region.  And of course, that will involve describing where
SM> how and when you call encode-coding-region.
SM> 
>> I do not understand the question. I use encode-coding-region to encode
>> a region into a charset and some characters are not encoded, but are
>> substituted with question mark.
SM> 
SM> Than show us how and when you call encode-coding-region.
SM> I.e. repeat the above but in elisp rather than english.
SM> Assume you're explining it to a complete idiot.

For example. 
1. (find-file "/tmp/test.txt")
2. enter some text in Russian (after I toggled xkb layout)
3. M-: (encode-coding-region (point-min) (point-max) 'koi8-r) and
Russian characters become '?'.

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Alexander Kotelnikov
Saint-Petersburg, Russia