From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:52:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafwuv7ycn1.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ur8lfc0uh.fsf@icn.siemen.de
Heinrich.Rommerskirchen@icn.siemen.de (Heinrich Rommerskirchen) writes:
> Assume you have a buffer in latin-1 encoding which contains umlauts,
> 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. In
> fact it can't because it doesn't know if the latin-1 umlaut is wrong or the
> latin-9 umlaut; and both look the same in the buffer :-(
Remember that first you select a coding system. This is either
latin-1 (then ä in latin-9 is wrong), or it is latin-9 (then ä in
latin-1 is wrong). So you can show the wrong character in both cases.
Oh, I didn't say that you have to choose the coding system, first.
Sorry.
kai
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-16 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-16 2:24 user sees \xxx but is thwarted from searching for them Dan Jacobson
2002-04-16 8:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 10:55 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-16 11:57 ` Heinrich Rommerskirchen
2002-04-16 13:52 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2002-04-16 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 14:41 ` Heinrich Rommerskirchen
2002-04-16 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-17 16:04 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-17 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-04-17 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 13:56 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-18 2:15 ` Dan Jacobson
2002-04-18 9:42 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-16 11:36 ` David Kastrup
2002-04-16 11:57 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-04-16 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 12:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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