From: Stefan <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: selecting an inapplicable coding-system
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:14:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1zn1iv0j2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c4cb99$Blat.v2.2.2$4da04380@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:00:13 +0200")
>> C-x RET f us-ascii RET
>> C-x C-s
>>
>> the file is saved in latin-1. This is because when saving
>> buffer-file-coding-system is just one of several coding-systems used.
> Isn't this a side effect of the feature that if the encoding that is
> ``natural'' in your language environment can encode the text, Emacs
> silently uses that encoding?
Yes it is and the "silently" is the problem here, since you just specified
manually that you want *another* encoding.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-16 5:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-15 23:25 selecting an inapplicable coding-system Stefan Monnier
2004-11-16 5:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-11-16 5:14 ` Stefan [this message]
2004-11-24 6:31 ` Karl Eichwalder
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