From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:57:26 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany 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=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018958418 9790 127.0.0.1 (16 Apr 2002 12:00:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:00:18 +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 16xRdC-0002Xn-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:00:18 +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 16xRdI-0004gb-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 08:00:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailbox4.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.56]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xRaV-0004XR-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:57:31 -0400 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailbox4.ucsd.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g3GBvTbL003340 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 04:57:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from fbi-news.cs.uni-dortmund.de (fbi-news [129.217.4.45]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g3GBvRb28554 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:57:28 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: (news@localhost) by fbi-news.cs.uni-dortmund.de id g3GBvRo04851; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:57:27 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:o3BupoXiCxR0grvidChGA/pS5oc= 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:700 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:700 David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) writes: > BTW, one common quirk of mine is that when I am saving or sending or > whatever else a file, and Emacs decides it is not able to find a > suitable encoding system for it, there is _no_ easy way to find out > just what characters prohibit encoding in, say, Latin-1. In Emacs 20.6, the offending characters are highlighted upon C-x C-s. Not sure why this fails to happen in 21 from CVS. kai -- Silence is foo!