From: Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca>
Subject: Re: prompt: "Select one of these safe coding systems"
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 15:11:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lm3i3ezb.fsf@labatt.uhoreg.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87smxqzsfw.fsf@computer.localdomain
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>>>>> "D" == D Goel <deego@gnufans.org> writes:
D> hi Here, emacs (21.2) always prompts for a "safe" coding system (when
D> trying to save the bdbb file)--->
D> ,----
D> |
D> | These default coding systems were tried: | iso-2022-7bit-unix
D> iso-latin-1 | However, none of them safely encodes the target text.
D> |
D> | Select one of the following safe coding systems: | utf-8 raw-text
D> emacs-mule no-conversion. `----
D> So, I tried to set-language-environment (used to be english) to
D> Latin-1, but emacs continued to prompt the first option being utf-8.
D> So, I tried to setq default-buffer-file-coding-system to 'utf-8, but
D> emacs still continued to show the same prompt.
[...]
It seems BBDB uses its own variable:
(setq bbdb-file-coding-system 'utf-8)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-24 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-24 19:19 prompt: "Select one of these safe coding systems" D. Goel
2002-11-24 20:11 ` Hubert Chan [this message]
2002-11-24 21:33 ` D. Goel
2002-11-25 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <mailman.1038204262.25648.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-11-25 12:01 ` D. Goel
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