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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 31807@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31807: 27.0; `info-apropos' bad name or bad matching
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 10:44:10 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83muvtuab9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7814f7b-d9c0-48d5-83aa-b354b047db10@default> (message from Drew Adams on Thu, 14 Jun 2018 07:16:12 -0700 (PDT))

> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 07:16:12 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 31807@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > > This is the scary text I saw, FWIW:...
> >
> > What's so scary about it?  It clearly identifies the problematic
> > characters, offers clickable buttons to go to each of them, and
> > explains the problem.  It should probably suggest UTF-8 as the first
> > alternative, but other than that I see no problem in this dialog.
> 
> Yes, at the very least, it should suggest utf-8 and provide
> that as the default value.  Only in a separate paragraph
> should it say that you can instead use any of the following
> instead...
> 
> Make it simple to understand that utf-8 solves the problem,
> and make it simple to choose utf-8.

Done on the master branch.

> You might even want to make it a 3-way decision: (1) Yes, convert to
> utf-8, (2) No, don't save, (3) Convert to an alternative encoding.

Option (2) is already available: just type C-g.  And the other 2 is
what this dialog is about.  With this change, UTF-8 is offered as the
default, if it can encode the text, and all the other encodings are
shown in a list from which the user can select another one.





  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-17  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-12 23:01 bug#31807: 27.0; `info-apropos' bad name or bad matching Drew Adams
2018-06-12 23:21 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-12 23:39   ` Drew Adams
2018-06-12 23:59     ` Drew Adams
2018-06-14 13:29       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-13  0:04     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-06-13  0:16       ` Drew Adams
2018-06-13 18:24         ` Drew Adams
     [not found]     ` <<eb245b09-a156-4585-8021-7a3e0e173dbc@default>
     [not found]       ` <<83muvx33ab.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-06-14 14:16         ` Drew Adams
2018-06-17  7:44           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]     ` <<<eb245b09-a156-4585-8021-7a3e0e173dbc@default>
     [not found]       ` <<<83muvx33ab.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]         ` <<f7814f7b-d9c0-48d5-83aa-b354b047db10@default>
     [not found]           ` <<83muvtuab9.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-06-17 14:26             ` Drew Adams
2018-06-14 13:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-14 14:11   ` Drew Adams
2018-06-14 14:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<78156de2-86c8-4593-92b5-59edf7a8996e@default>
     [not found] ` <<83o9gd33dj.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <<a4bf1dd4-d411-4a74-b5dd-9b7abaef9250@default>
     [not found]     ` <<83in6l30ir.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-06-14 14:42       ` Drew Adams
2018-06-14 15:09         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-14 20:45       ` Drew Adams
2022-04-21 15:05         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-21 20:04           ` Drew Adams
     [not found] <<<78156de2-86c8-4593-92b5-59edf7a8996e@default>
     [not found] ` <<<83o9gd33dj.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <<<a4bf1dd4-d411-4a74-b5dd-9b7abaef9250@default>
     [not found]     ` <<<83in6l30ir.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]       ` <<5fc07c84-b8d2-493c-a17b-774ad1c213bf@default>
     [not found]         ` <<83fu1p2ym7.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-06-14 15:33           ` Drew Adams
2018-06-14 15:50             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<<<78156de2-86c8-4593-92b5-59edf7a8996e@default>
     [not found] ` <<<<83o9gd33dj.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <<<<a4bf1dd4-d411-4a74-b5dd-9b7abaef9250@default>
     [not found]     ` <<<<83in6l30ir.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]       ` <<<5fc07c84-b8d2-493c-a17b-774ad1c213bf@default>
     [not found]         ` <<<83fu1p2ym7.fsf@gnu.org>
     [not found]           ` <<73c2c21d-9fba-4ab5-a0b0-8b36e9a23bcf@default>
     [not found]             ` <<83efh92wr2.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-06-14 15:58               ` Drew Adams

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