From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kuehling Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: multibyte GZipped files Date: 03 May 2002 16:03:10 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87k7qlgwgx.fsf@snail.pool> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020434774 29477 127.0.0.1 (3 May 2002 14:06:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 14:06:14 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 173dhN-0007fK-00 for ; Fri, 03 May 2002 16:06:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 173dhL-0008PF-00; Fri, 03 May 2002 10:06:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 173df3-000830-00 for ; Fri, 03 May 2002 10:03:49 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 24082 invoked by uid 0); 3 May 2002 14:03:47 -0000 Original-Received: from pec-152-235.tnt8.b2.uunet.de (HELO mosquito.Pool) (149.225.152.235) by mail.gmx.net (mp001-rz3) with SMTP; 3 May 2002 14:03:47 -0000 Original-Received: from snail (spock@snail.Pool [192.168.0.4]) by mosquito.Pool (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id PAA01596 for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 15:58:02 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: mosquito.Pool: Host spock@snail.Pool [192.168.0.4] claimed to be snail Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:1136 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:1136 I'm having lots of trouble reading japanese documentation that's GZipped. Somehow auto-compression mode is interfering with coding systems. Opening a gzipped text file will normally set the buffer into uni-byte mode. So before I'm able to use `decode-coding-region' I first have to call `toggle-enable-multibyte-characters' (which caused a lot of confusion since I'm used to Buffers being multibyte). Specifying the coding system via C-x c euc-jp C-x f .gz won't work either. The resulting buffer will just be empty. A similar problem might be related: I'm not able to read japanese info files with Emacs, when they're GZipped. I'm using Emacs 21.1 which came with Debian Woody. Any help would be appreciated. David Kühling -- GnuPG public key: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~dvdkhlng/dk.gpg Fingerprint: B17A DC95 D293 657B 4205 D016 7DEF 5323 C174 7D40