emacs 23.0.92 - problem writing document with non-standard characters.

emacs 23.0.92 - problem writing document with non-standard characters.

[rabbitko]

Hallo Group Members
I copied&pasted some part of document from web page into emacs buffer,
then when tried to save it I get error message:
Saving file /tmp/document.txt...
apply: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil

THe problem is probably with character coding. I remember that emacs 22
did that better: it just jumped to character which was suspicious and
suggested choosing another character encoding for this document.

Literally, I wanted to copy part: 

(Zmywarka "eko" lub "bio"


from:
http://gospodarka.gazeta.pl/gospodarka/1,33181,6054598,Czy_moge_pania_zoffsetowac_.html?as=2&ias=3&startsz=x

'"' does the problem here.

Is it a bug?

best regards!
Michal

Re: emacs 23.0.92 - problem writing document with non-standard characters.

[Charles Philip Chan]

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rabbitko@tenbit.pl writes:

> I copied&pasted some part of document from web page into emacs buffer,
> then when tried to save it I get error message:
> Saving file /tmp/document.txt...
> apply: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil

I tested it out. I have no problems saving the file. I am using Emacs
23.0.92.1. My coding system is utf-8-unix (alias: mule-utf-8-unix).

Charles

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Re: emacs 23.0.92 - problem writing document with non-standard characters.

[Michal]

Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@sympatico.ca> writes:

> I tested it out. I have no problems saving the file. I am using Emacs
> 23.0.92.1. My coding system is utf-8-unix (alias: mule-utf-8-unix).


Indeed it can be saved without warning message when I change my coding
system iso-latin-2-unix to utf-8-unix, but the problem is that emacs 22
when it didn't allow me to write such strange '"' characters in
iso-latin-2-unix buffer it jumped to the strange character and suggested
to change coding system for whole buffer. Then I just could replace such
character with 'legal' one or just change the coding system. Emacs 23
just leaves me with message

apply: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil

best regards,
Michal

Re: emacs 23.0.92 - problem writing document with non-standard characters.

[Charles Philip Chan]

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Michal <rabbitko@tenbit.pl> writes:

> Indeed it can be saved without warning message when I change my coding
> system iso-latin-2-unix to utf-8-unix, but the problem is that emacs 22
> when it didn't allow me to write such strange '"' characters in
> iso-latin-2-unix buffer it jumped to the strange character and suggested
> to change coding system for whole buffer. Then I just could replace such
> character with 'legal' one or just change the coding system. Emacs 23
> just leaves me with message
>
> apply: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, nil

You should report the bug.

Cheers.

Charles

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