From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B.T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: i18n search/replace with input methods latin-4-postfix and rfc1345 Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:18:29 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <113gqjs29ib2l2d@corp.supernews.com> References: <113a21a5lr8si80@corp.supernews.com> <87psy273pq.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> <113bjhicl5eajb2@corp.supernews.com> <87ll8omz87.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> <113eunqf35gtlf1@corp.supernews.com> <877jk8kxtt.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110994425 24923 80.91.229.2 (16 Mar 2005 17:33:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 18:33:44 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBcAa-0003uu-EE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:18:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBcQg-0003V9-U6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:35:35 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-08!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 61 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129327 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24881 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24881 Thanks again, monsieur Monnier. I posted a note about my problem to gnu.emacs.bug. As a forlorn hope, I changed my encoding of .emacs from emacs-mule to utf-8 but it didn't make any difference. A fresh latin-4 character is still different from the same one after it has been saved and revisited. Although I downloaded the entire suite of cygwin packages (including cvs and stunnel) I know how to use only the shell tools (grep, sed, sort, etc) but these things aren't unicode aware and I couldn't conveniently input strange characters from the command line anyway (if for instance I wanted make changes with sed by looking at the emacs buffer in one window and the command line in a Dos Window. Ed. "Stefan Monnier" wrote in message news:877jk8kxtt.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org... > >> > (unify-8859-on-decoding-mode 1) > >> > >> Good. > >> > >> > '(unify-8859-on-encoding-mode t nil (ucs-tables)) > >> > >> Good as well. Except that the two do the same thing redundantly, so > > it's > >> better to get rid of one of them. I.e. if you like to configure your > > system > >> with Custom, then keep the second, else keep the first. > > > They shouldn't do the same thing since one is for decoding and the other > > for encoding. > > Oops, sorry, I wasn't careful enough. > > > Anyway I think I'll stick with Custom since it's probably the less error > > prone method. Apparently unify on encoding is safe but the other one can > > cause information loss. > > Indeed, but only in "unusual" situations (e.g. if you use encodings like > iso-2022). And in your case, unification on decoding is exactly what you > need (provided you're not bumping into a bug that prevents it from doing > its job, of course). > > > I am using the NT build and am not comfortable compiling from source. I > > have cygwin running under MS win but have never tried to build anything > > with gcc. > > I think cygwin has a precompiled cygwin version of the CVS code. > > > Stefan