From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Heinrich Rommerskirchen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them Date: 16 Apr 2002 14:41:02 +0000 Organization: Siemens Business Services Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <563-Tue16Apr2002170838+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018968136 26296 127.0.0.1 (16 Apr 2002 14:42:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:42:16 +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 16xU9w-0006q1-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:42:16 +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 16xUA3-0004IS-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:42:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailbox3.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.55]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xU8l-0004D5-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:41:03 -0400 Original-Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by mailbox3.ucsd.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g3GEf0Sj004543 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:41:01 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from mail2.siemens.de (mail2.siemens.de [139.25.208.11]) by david.siemens.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3GEex822031 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:41:00 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from news1.siemens.de (news1.siemens.de [139.23.33.24]) by mail2.siemens.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3GEexC27465 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:40:59 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by news1.siemens.de (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g3GEewJ14089 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:40:58 +0200 (MDT) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.21.13.3 Original-X-Trace: news1.siemens.de 1018968057 14080 139.21.13.3 (16 Apr 2002 14:40:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@siemens.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:40:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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:713 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:713 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > Try "C-u C-x =", it should tell. But you have to do it for each candidate character. Or is there some easy way to search for the next latin-9 character in a predominantly latin-1 buffer? I was in such a situation yesterday. Normally I use latin-1 encoding but switched to language environment latin-9 to edit some files containing Euro signs and forgot about this change. Then I loaded a 400 line DOS file containing "-*- coding: cp850 -*-" in the first line. Emacs encoded all the umlauts already in the file as latin-1 but encoded the typed umlauts as latin-9. And after minor changes all over the file and a few interruptions I didn't remember which parts were changed and which were old ... -- Regards Heinz