From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Saving when the coding system can't code all buffer characters Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:44:10 -0500 Message-ID: References: <458B0D75.9010204@student.lu.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167407113 13405 80.91.229.10 (29 Dec 2006 15:45:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:45:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 29 16:45:11 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 1H0Juw-0001FS-Cx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:45:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0Juv-0007FK-W4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:45:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0JuD-0006h9-DV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:44:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H0JuC-0006gp-W8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:44:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H0JuC-0006gk-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:44:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H0JuC-0003FU-G4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:44:24 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1H0Jty-0005Qr-Ac; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:44:10 -0500 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:20:30 +0200) 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:64420 Archived-At: However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode: cp1251-unix cannot encode these: x x x x x x x x x ... iso-latin-1-unix cannot encode these: y y y y y y y y y ... Each one of `x' and `y' is a different character, potentially from several different character sets. How to display information about them based on what "C-u C-x =" produces? My idea is to pick the first character and give more info about it. To be sure, that is not ALL the information the user might conceivably want. He might be more interested in the others characters. However, most of the time, the info about ANY one character will be enough to explain the problem. Giving this extra info about just one character (the first) is very likely to be enough.