From: Joseph Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: coding systems
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbtbrv0p.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.9998.1257282634.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> By the way, on the subject of the virtue of code examples... if
>> I'd just given that a try on my own, I might very well tried a
>> quoted string first:
>>
>> (prefer-coding-system "utf-8")
>>
>> I would then have been very puzzled by this error message:
>>
>> error: Invalid coding system `utf-8'
>
> This is a chance to help improve Emacs by submitting a bug report:
> `M-x report-emacs-bug'.
Good point. Will do.
(And actually, now that I think about it, I think I have seen that error
message before... that particular rat-hole is probably the reason I
didn't solve this problem a year ago.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-03 0:42 coding systems Joseph Brenner
2009-11-03 4:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.9963.1257221220.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-03 7:23 ` Joseph Brenner
2009-11-03 9:35 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-11-03 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.9970.1257240951.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-03 20:25 ` Joseph Brenner
2009-11-03 21:10 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.9998.1257282634.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-04 0:30 ` Joseph Brenner [this message]
2009-11-05 5:52 ` convenience in c programming question: ifdefs Maindoor
2009-11-03 7:31 ` coding systems Tim X
2009-11-03 19:11 ` Joseph Brenner
2009-11-03 21:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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