From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#31807: 27.0; `info-apropos' bad name or bad matching Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:29:00 +0300 Message-ID: <83muvx33ab.fsf@gnu.org> References: <78156de2-86c8-4593-92b5-59edf7a8996e@default> <08a478b6-1819-4bef-8165-2fb2c2e162eb@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528982942 18473 195.159.176.226 (14 Jun 2018 13:29:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:29:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 31807@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 14 15:28:57 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fTSJ4-0004ZV-GU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2018 15:28:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40655 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTSLB-0008Ql-Eu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 14 Jun 2018 09:29:14 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:59:19 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:147406 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 16:59:19 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > > This is the scary text I saw, FWIW: > > These default coding systems were tried to encode text > in the buffer 'aaaaa.txt': > (undecided-unix (768 . 8216) (771 . 8217)) (iso-latin-1-unix (768 > . 8216) (771 . 8217)) > However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode: > undecided-unix cannot encode these: ' ' > iso-latin-1-unix 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). > > gb2312 shift_jis iso-2022-jp big5 utf-8 euc-kr euc-jis-2004 euc-jp > euc-tw windows-1256 windows-1258 cp874 iso-2022-jp-2004 windows-1255 > cp869 windows-1253 iso-8859-7 adobe-standard-encoding macintosh > windows-1257 windows-1254 windows-1252 windows-1250 windows-1251 > koi8-t gb18030 gbk big5-hkscs hz-gb-2312 utf-7 utf-16 > utf-16be-with-signature utf-16le-with-signature utf-16be utf-16le > iso-2022-7bit utf-8-auto utf-8-with-signature eucjp-ms utf-8-hfs > georgian-academy georgian-ps korean-cp949 japanese-shift-jis-2004 > japanese-iso-7bit-1978-irv japanese-cp932 pt154 > cyrillic-alternativnyj utf-7-imap utf-8-emacs prefer-utf-8 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.