Re: converting between charsets

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

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.

> 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.

Than show us how and when you call encode-coding-region.
I.e. repeat the above but in elisp rather than english.
Assume you're explining it to a complete idiot.

SM> Same kind of issue as the one I mentioned.
SM> Have you tried unify-8859-on-decoding-mode?

> Just tried. Nothing changes.

Than please report it via M-x report-emacs-bug.

>>> M-P M-0 C-h l
SM> 
SM> So when you hit that key, Emacs received M-P M-0 rather than the char you
SM> think you sent to it.  What is your locale?

> 22:37 pts/28 sacha@vinci:~ 1> locale
> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
> LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_NUMERIC=C
> LC_TIME=C
> LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_MESSAGES=C
> LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_NAME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.UTF-8"
> LC_ALL=

Sounds like a bug, then.  Please report it via M-x report-emacs-bug.


        Stefan