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From: Joseph Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: coding systems
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbtbrv0p.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.9998.1257282634.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org


"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> By the way, on the subject of the virtue of code examples...  if
>> I'd just given that a try on my own, I might very well tried a
>> quoted string first:
>>
>>   (prefer-coding-system "utf-8")
>>
>> I would then have been very puzzled by this error message:
>>
>>   error: Invalid coding system `utf-8'
>
> This is a chance to help improve Emacs by submitting a bug report:
> `M-x report-emacs-bug'.

Good point.  Will do.

(And actually, now that I think about it, I think I have seen that error
message before... that particular rat-hole is probably the reason I
didn't solve this problem a year ago.)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-04  0:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-03  0:42 coding systems Joseph Brenner
2009-11-03  4:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.9963.1257221220.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-03  7:23   ` Joseph Brenner
2009-11-03  9:35     ` Peter Dyballa
2009-11-03 18:53     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.9970.1257240951.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-03 20:25       ` Joseph Brenner
2009-11-03 21:10         ` Drew Adams
     [not found]         ` <mailman.9998.1257282634.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-04  0:30           ` Joseph Brenner [this message]
2009-11-05  5:52         ` convenience in c programming question: ifdefs Maindoor
2009-11-03  7:31 ` coding systems Tim X
2009-11-03 19:11   ` Joseph Brenner
2009-11-03 21:20     ` Eli Zaretskii

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