From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joseph Brenner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: coding systems Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:30:46 -0800 Message-ID: <87hbtbrv0p.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> References: <87k4y8xwvb.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> <87y6moul4y.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> <87my33tky4.fsf@kzsu.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257295408 19595 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2009 00:43:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:43:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 04 01:43:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N5Ty3-0004ob-8j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:43:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46699 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N5Ty2-0000j9-Qg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:43:18 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.rawbandwidth!news.posted.rawbandwidth.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:30:31 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:yDhxNth6LP9aJCSHldLBxL9C3Zg= Original-Lines: 21 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.144.208.84 Original-X-Trace: sv3-Sod9CQDsO+fd2lpsRyQuz/WxDPx+fNGjClU+loCrxJl7pa/AAW2TqOPEZ+7vpQNRVV6wBk3lZV87CuB!Q8SNllETlnUsvTSdNeYBav2+pogv61xL2xy+1WOYSBPH/vrz1WebYGEVBBOePqNgQaFz0ddNMVk= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174382 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69459 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" 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.)