Encoding - - - WHAT is going on !?!?!

Encoding - - - WHAT is going on !?!?!

[Soren Kuula]

Hi,

When I switch Emacs to Chinese-py input mode and write the Chinese 
charecters for "Dongfang Hong" (never mind what that is, it's Chinese 
all right)

- and specifically try to save in ISO-8859-1, by using C-enter c 
ISO-8851-1 C-f C-w dongfanghome.txt

-- then the file dumps (xxd) to:

0000000: 1b24 4136 2b37 3d3a 6c1b 2842 0a         .$A6+7=:l.(B.

-- which is ISO2022-something and not what I asked for ??

I know that what I asked for is impossible, but hey, should Emacs not 
have warned me ?

Also, can anyone tell me the difference between no-conversion and raw-text ?

Thank you

Soren

Re: Encoding - - - WHAT is going on !?!?!

[Stefan Monnier]

> When I switch Emacs to Chinese-py input mode and write the Chinese
> charecters for "Dongfang Hong" (never mind what that is, it's Chinese all
> right)

> - and specifically try to save in ISO-8859-1, by using C-enter c ISO-8851-1
>   C-f C-w dongfanghome.txt

> -- then the file dumps (xxd) to:

> 0000000: 1b24 4136 2b37 3d3a 6c1b 2842 0a         .$A6+7=:l.(B.

> -- which is ISO2022-something and not what I asked for ??

> I know that what I asked for is impossible, but hey, should Emacs not have
> warned me ?

Agreed.  Please report it as a bug with M-x report-emacs-bug.
The problem is probably that iso-2022-foo is one of your "default"
encodings, so if the encoding you specified doesn't work, this iso-2022-foo
is used instead silently.

> Also, can anyone tell me the difference between no-conversion and raw-text ?

raw-text does end-of-line conversion.


        Stefan