From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: selecting an inapplicable coding-system Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:14:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <01c4cb99$Blat.v2.2.2$4da04380@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100582120 23337 80.91.229.6 (16 Nov 2004 05:15:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 05:15:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 16 06:15:10 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CTvgL-0001Vg-00 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 06:15:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTvp5-00049w-6h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:24:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTvou-00049X-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:24:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTvou-00049E-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:24:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTvou-000494-3C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:24:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [206.47.199.164] (helo=simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CTvfr-0004Kr-Mj; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:14:39 -0500 Original-Received: from empanada.home ([70.48.82.50]) by simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.10 201-253-122-130-110-20040306) with ESMTP id <20041116051439.CDRO1597.simmts6-srv.bellnexxia.net@empanada.home>; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:14:39 -0500 Original-Received: by empanada.home (Postfix, from userid 502) id 082B036E2B6; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:14:38 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <01c4cb99$Blat.v2.2.2$4da04380@zahav.net.il> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:00:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29908 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29908 >> 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