Re: emacs 30.5.0 editing epub

["H.-J. Heitländer" <Heiner.Heitlaender@posteo.de>]

Hi Stephen,

mode line displays

<snip>

=:**-

</snip>

When entering the command C-x RET r ... utf-8  the "answer" is

"wrong type argument: strongp, nil".


Testcase 2)

kill buffer up to the top epub

reopen epub

open epub subfile (...html)

C-x RET r ... utf-8

in minibufer: Revert buffer from file xxx.html? (y or n)

Answer: y

Minibuffer: Cannot revert noexistent file xxx.html



Other directory buffers display with "coding system (default nil)" as 
soon as I perform a refresh of the directory display with "g". To cure 
this phenomen I have to kill / restart emacs.

So no easy solution / workaround at the moment.

TX
Heiner



Am 16.03.23 um 10:22 schrieb Stephen Berman:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 18:35:55 +0000 H.-J. Heitländer<Heiner.Heitlaender@posteo.de>  wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> trying to get my feet wet with emacs and lisp. ... well it seems I am
>> drowning...
>>
>> The problem:
>>
>> I am editing epub archives and  any saves that I am doing result in
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> ***backtrace***
> [...]
>> For the moment I can live with that as in reality the epub is being saved.
>>
>> My problem is that from that moment on the display of the epub subfile
>> (<name>.html) loses the utf-8 display. (oh, and every other file is being
>> displayed in the same - wrong - way.)
>>
>> The content is shown as (example)
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> \342\200\234Nicely done. Now let\342\200\231s get that equipment on
>> board.\342\200\234 </p>
>>
>> </snip>
>>
>> It should have been shown as
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> "Nicely done. Now let's get that equipment on board." </p>
>>
>> </snip>
>>
>> I searched the internet without any result. Don't know which part of
>> documentation to read.
>>
>> Question: How do I switch the display back to show the contents in the
>> expected way???
> It looks like the buffer is being displayed in the raw-text coding
> system (is the first character in the mode line "t"?).  \342\200\234 is
> the raw-byte sequence of the unicode character LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION
> MARK (#x201c) and \342\200\231 of RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (#x2019).
> Does typing `C-x RET r' and at the prompt entering `utf-8' and at the
> next prompt `yes' fix the display?
>
> Steve Berman