Re: ediff and coding systems

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer) writes:

  > Same thing - no luck.

What version of emacs are you using? 
With 22.1 it works fine for me, with CVS trunk it does not... 

  > > kifer@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Kifer) writes:
  > > 
  > >   > I cannot reproduce this. I need a simple testcase.
  > >   > I took lisp/term/mac-win.el and created two copies. One with iso-2022-7bit
  > >   > and the other with utf-8. But ediffing them did not bring any warnings.
  > > 
  > > Please try 
  > > env LANG=C emacs -q 
  > > and then ediff the 2 files.
  > > 
  > > 
  > >   > > Michael, could you please look into the following report?  TIA
  > >   > > 
  > >   > > > From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
  > >   > > > Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:21:10 -0700
  > >   > > > 
  > >   > > > 
  > >   > > > lisp/term/mac-win.el from CVS trunk uses:  -*-coding: iso-2022-7bit;-*-
  > >   > > > and the same file on the emacs-unicode-2 uses: -*-coding: utf-8 
  > >   > > > 
  > >   > > > When doing M-x ediff for the above 2 files a *Warning* buffer pops up
  > >   > > > for each hunk:
  > >   > > > 
  > >   > > > These default coding systems were tried to encode text
  > >   > > > in the buffer ` *ediff-tmp*':
  > >   > > >   iso-latin-1
  > >   > > > However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode:
  > >   > > >   iso-latin-1 cannot encode these: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ...
  > >   > > > 
  > >   > > > Click on a character (or switch to this window by `C-x o'
  > >   > > > and select the characters by RET) to jump to the place it appears,
  > >   > > > where `C-u C-x =' will give information about it.
  > >   > > > 
  > >   > > > Select one of the safe coding systems listed below,
  > >   > > > or cancel the writing with C-g and edit the buffer
  > >   > > >    to remove or modify the problematic characters,
  > >   > > > or specify any other coding system (and risk losing
  > >   > > >    the problematic characters).
  > >   > > > 
  > >   > > >   utf-8 utf-16 utf-16 utf-16 utf-16be utf-16le iso-2022-7bit
  > >   > > > 
  > >   > > > with the question "Select coding system (default mule-utf-8):"
  > >   > > > 
  > >   > > > Would it be possible for ediff to avoid this?
  > >   > > > 
  > >   > > > 
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