From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hubert Chan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: prompt: "Select one of these safe coding systems" Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 15:11:20 -0500 Organization: University of Waterloo Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87lm3i3ezb.fsf@labatt.uhoreg.ca> References: <87smxqzsfw.fsf@computer.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038169282 3121 80.91.224.249 (24 Nov 2002 20:21:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 20:21:22 +0000 (UTC) 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 18G3Fn-0000nw-01 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:21:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18G3G6-0002uu-00; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 15:21:38 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!torn!news.uwaterloo.ca!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: hopper.math.uwaterloo.ca Original-X-Trace: tabloid.uwaterloo.ca 1038168688 5933 129.97.78.132 (24 Nov 2002 20:11:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@uwaterloo.ca Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 20:11:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lU2kPsI/ZZVfXX8Y0yukwJR+BR4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107383 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3935 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3935 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >>>>> "D" =3D=3D D Goel writes: D> hi Here, emacs (21.2) always prompts for a "safe" coding system (when D> trying to save the bdbb file)---> D> ,---- D> |=20 D> | These default coding systems were tried: | iso-2022-7bit-unix D> iso-latin-1 | However, none of them safely encodes the target text. D> |=20 D> | Select one of the following safe coding systems: | utf-8 raw-text D> emacs-mule no-conversion. `---- D> So, I tried to set-language-environment (used to be english) to D> Latin-1, but emacs continued to prompt the first option being utf-8. D> So, I tried to setq default-buffer-file-coding-system to 'utf-8, but D> emacs still continued to show the same prompt. [...] It seems BBDB uses its own variable: (setq bbdb-file-coding-system 'utf-8) =2D-=20 Hubert Chan - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE94TJrrynHGRJLYfoRAmB4AJ4v/ezptmG6TyyJ/KDvaTMSI5kW0gCfTpqH Mr+ijMPQYbdmrCyGBtn3H9k= =B8zU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--