From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ediff and coding systems Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:09:12 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200710201521.l9KFLCWK004756@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192903776 15344 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2007 18:09:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:09:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Kifer , Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 20 20:09:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IjIlT-00061o-Ij for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:09:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjIlL-0000NV-Vc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:09:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjIlI-0000N5-R0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IjIlH-0000MJ-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:09:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IjIlH-0000MC-7P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:09:23 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjIlG-0000eX-RN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:09:23 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-211-79.inter.net.il [80.230.211.79]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id JEB13234 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:09:01 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <200710201521.l9KFLCWK004756@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> (message from Dan Nicolaescu on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:21:10 -0700) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:81312 Archived-At: Michael, could you please look into the following report? TIA > From: Dan Nicolaescu > Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:21:10 -0700 > > > lisp/term/mac-win.el from CVS trunk uses: -*-coding: iso-2022-7bit;-*- > and the same file on the emacs-unicode-2 uses: -*-coding: utf-8 > > When doing M-x ediff for the above 2 files a *Warning* buffer pops up > for each hunk: > > These default coding systems were tried to encode text > in the buffer ` *ediff-tmp*': > iso-latin-1 > However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode: > iso-latin-1 cannot encode these: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ... > > Click on a character (or switch to this window by `C-x o' > and select the characters by RET) to jump to the place it appears, > where `C-u C-x =' will give information about it. > > Select one of the safe coding systems listed below, > or cancel the writing with C-g and edit the buffer > to remove or modify the problematic characters, > or specify any other coding system (and risk losing > the problematic characters). > > utf-8 utf-16 utf-16 utf-16 utf-16be utf-16le iso-2022-7bit > > with the question "Select coding system (default mule-utf-8):" > > Would it be possible for ediff to avoid this? > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-devel mailing list > Emacs-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel >