From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, kifer@cs.sunysb.edu,
handa@m17n.org
Subject: Re: ediff and coding systems
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:11:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <usl42svlh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvfy03rwtj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:32:30 -0400)
> Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>, dann@ics.uci.edu, kifer@cs.sunysb.edu,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:32:30 -0400
>
> > Not a good idea, I'm afraid: those temporary files (or parts thereof)
> > will need to be read back, when `diff' finishes, so each one needs to
> > be in the original encoding, or else the diffs will be incorrect.
> > E.g., imagine two files with the same text, but different encodings: I
> > don't think we want ediff say that they compare identical.
>
> Quite the contrary: it's the only right thing to do because we're comparing
> two pieces of buffer (not file)
I don't think ediff-make-temp-file knows that. It's a general-purpose
utility function in ediff, AFAIR, and is invoked for files as well.
Note: I was responding to Handa-san's suggestion that
ediff-make-temp-file binds coding-system-for-write.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-22 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-20 15:21 ediff and coding systems Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-20 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-10-21 5:43 ` Michael Kifer
2007-10-21 6:12 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-21 6:52 ` Michael Kifer
2007-10-21 7:17 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-21 18:46 ` Michael Kifer
2007-10-21 19:22 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-21 19:37 ` Leo
2007-10-21 21:35 ` Michael Kifer
2007-10-22 2:08 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-22 3:50 ` Michael Kifer
2007-10-27 21:03 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-10-28 21:01 ` Michael Kifer
2007-10-22 3:42 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-10-22 4:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-10-22 5:05 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-10-22 15:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-22 21:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-10-22 4:29 ` Michael Kifer
2007-10-22 15:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-22 16:18 ` Michael Kifer
2007-10-21 2:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-21 2:43 ` Dan Nicolaescu
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