From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: handa@etl.go.jp, spiegel@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, d.love@dl.ac.uk
Subject: Re: unencodable-char-position [Re: Several serious problems]
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:15:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200208121715.g7CHFrw29709@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200208121706.g7CH65b06541@wijiji.santafe.edu
> I implemented that and tried on several files. But, it
> seems that such kind of feature is not that helpful.
>
> In the case that the buffer contains many unencodable chars,
> usually the specified coding system is wrong, and we must
> use a different coding system. So, it is not that
> interesting to know where are the other unencodable
> characters.
>
> In the case that the buffer contains a few unencodable
> chars, as it's seldam that more than one of them appear in
> one window, highlighting the other unencodable chars is not
> that useful.
>
> These seem like persuasive arguments; it sounds good.
>
> How can I make a test case to observe it functioning?
> I tried but I couldn't get encoding to "fail".
Try to save the HELLO file in utf-8.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-12 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-22 17:11 Several serious problems Richard Stallman
2002-07-22 19:01 ` Andre Spiegel
2002-07-22 19:03 ` Andre Spiegel
2002-07-23 4:00 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-22 19:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-07-23 18:58 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-22 19:11 ` Andre Spiegel
2002-07-23 4:42 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-07-24 3:25 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-24 4:43 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-07-25 3:12 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-25 3:24 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-07-26 15:35 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-27 3:19 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-07-29 1:12 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-29 14:32 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-07-30 1:00 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-09 7:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-09 16:08 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-08-10 17:16 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-12 16:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-13 1:48 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-15 2:30 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-08-15 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-15 5:31 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-08-15 15:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-15 17:33 ` Dave Love
2002-07-23 13:35 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-07-23 13:52 ` Alan Shutko
2002-07-24 3:25 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-24 3:25 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-24 4:37 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-07-25 3:12 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-25 5:53 ` Miles Bader
2002-07-26 14:29 ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-07-27 18:52 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-09 7:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-11 1:59 ` unencodable-char-position [Re: Several serious problems] Kenichi Handa
2002-08-12 17:06 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-12 17:15 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-08-13 0:37 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-08-13 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-14 0:20 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-08-14 23:13 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-15 17:51 ` Dave Love
2002-08-19 5:04 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-08-29 22:52 ` Dave Love
2002-08-30 6:53 ` Andre Spiegel
2002-08-09 7:44 ` Several serious problems Stefan Monnier
2002-08-10 17:16 ` Richard Stallman
2002-08-12 0:26 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-08-09 4:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-08-15 17:23 ` Dave Love
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