From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ediff and coding systems Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:34:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <25112.1193027397@cs.sunysb.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193067364 15148 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2007 15:36:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:36:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa To: kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 22 17:36:05 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 1IjzJs-00054a-Aa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:35:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjzJk-00025z-Bg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:35:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjzJ0-0001JA-MU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjzIy-0001I6-4Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjzIx-0001I2-Tu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:34:59 -0400 Original-Received: from h209-71-201-81.gtconnect.net ([209.71.201.81] helo=ceviche.home) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjzIu-000410-UI; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:34:57 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2D111B4A74; Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:34:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <25112.1193027397@cs.sunysb.edu> (Michael Kifer's message of "Mon\, 22 Oct 2007 00\:29\:57 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:81463 Archived-At: > I still cannot reproduce this, but ediff-make-temp-file has been changed on > Aug 19 to use the coding system of the buffer for the temp file created out > of that buffer. This was in order to fix some other problem. Forgot which > -- it was on this list. The coding system of the buffer seems to be the > right thing. It was 'no-conversion before, but had a problem because those > temp files are then read back and no-conversion was screwing things up. `no-conversion' is a bad choice (it only works for unibyte data). You want `emacs-mule' (or rather `emacs-internal' but this one doesn't exist: I mean by `emacs-internal' the encoding used internally, so it's `emacs-mule' in Emacs22 but it will be different in Emacs23). Stefan