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 11:57:42 +0000 Organization: Siemens Business Services Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018958434 9806 127.0.0.1 (16 Apr 2002 12:00:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:00:34 +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 16xRdS-0002Y3-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:00:34 +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 16xRdX-0004hd-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 08:00:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailbox4.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.56]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xRai-0004Yp-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:57:45 -0400 Original-Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by mailbox4.ucsd.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g3GBvgbL003348 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 04:57:43 -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 g3GBvf822708 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:57:42 +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 g3GBveC26081 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:57:41 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by news1.siemens.de (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g3GBvda08555 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:57:39 +0200 (MDT) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.21.13.3 Original-X-Trace: news1.siemens.de 1018958258 7974 139.21.13.3 (16 Apr 2002 11:57:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@siemens.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:57:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mailbox4.ucsd.edu id g3GBvgbL003348 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:701 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:701 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > Maybe it helps to try to save the buffer to a file, and let Emacs > complain about the character that couldn't be encoded using the > current coding system. But I'm not sure if that does the trick, > though. But that doesn't help always:=20 Assume you have a buffer in latin-1 encoding which contains umlauts,=20 add a umlaut in latin-9 and press C-x C-f. Then emacs complains that it cannot safely save the buffer without showing the offending characters. I= n fact it can't because it doesn't know if the latin-1 umlaut is wrong or t= he latin-9 umlaut; and both look the same in the buffer :-( --=20 Regards Heinz