From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: can't unjumble foreign buffer Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 11:07:58 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87bry3mvw1.fsf@jidanni.org> References: <3EC3A675.9020103@yahoo.com> Reply-To: Dan Jacobson NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053071520 16886 80.91.224.249 (16 May 2003 07:52:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 07:52:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 16 09:51:53 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Ga0P-0004Nt-00 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 09:51:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Ga1Q-0003FT-04 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2003 03:52:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Ga1G-0003FB-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2003 03:52:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Ga1E-0003En-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2003 03:52:45 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Ga1E-0003CX-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 May 2003 03:52:44 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19GZyy-0004J8-00 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 09:50:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19GZi7-0003L0-00 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 09:32:59 +0200 Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:5074 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:5074 >> I do find-file on a file that is unicode text (.txt), and I want to >> unjumble before my eyes. The only thing on the menus that might be >> appropriate is 'set coding system' but that is greyed-out. K> So the "Set Coding Systems" menu item is grayed-out when K> enable-multibyte-characters is nil. So you must have explicitly disabled K> multibyte character support. No, my file, begin 644 bad.txt )Y8N9Y'SEG+#E ` end it turned out, wasn't perfect unicode. Well, I still think emacs should be more comforting in telling the user what is bothering it, instead of just shuttering its windows like my file was a SARS patient, of by the way I hear plenty on my ambulance scanner radio. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780