From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters in auto-save files Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2521d9c6-8d4d-4b88-8a42-1a78f425233c@oe8g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> References: <552e854a-1277-4170-b315-55458d69d622@f8g2000pbf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340832613 24614 80.91.229.3 (27 Jun 2012 21:30:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:30:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 27 23:30:13 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SjzoT-00057f-0a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:30:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36107 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SjzoT-000634-0A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:30:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!oe8g2000pbb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1340832443 4317 127.0.0.1 (27 Jun 2012 21:27:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:27:23 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: oe8g2000pbb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.56 Safari/536.5,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193144 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85539 Archived-At: On Jun 27, 9:44=A0am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Xah Lee > > Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:52:41 -0700 (PDT) > > > i thought emacs 23/24 uses a superset of utf-8 as internal encoding? > > It does. hi Eli, thanks for confirmation. > > so that i thought those #autosave# files are encoded in utf-8, and as > > long as one open them with utf-8 decoding all chars would show. Is > > this not correct? > > Not 100%, because it's a superset. =A0That is, there could be codes > there that UTF-8 will fail to decode. that's interesting. What's some examples? e.g. What chars in emacs's encoding that's different from utf-8 encoding? I've been wondering why it needs to be a superset. Xah