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 15:52:02 +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=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018965246 20452 127.0.0.1 (16 Apr 2002 13:54:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:54:06 +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 16xTPK-0005Jl-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:54:06 +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 16xTPQ-0008Nt-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:54:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailbox.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.54] helo=mailbox2.ucsd.edu) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xTNO-0008HJ-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.4.42]) by mailbox2.ucsd.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g3GDq4SK004148 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 06:52:05 -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 g3GDq3b01953 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:52:04 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: (news@localhost) by fbi-news.cs.uni-dortmund.de id g3GDq3007136; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:52:03 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 18 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:+6XhQqAJUSox5HmtjfVSJO0YHqA= X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mailbox2.ucsd.edu id g3GDq4SK004148 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:707 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:707 Heinrich.Rommerskirchen@icn.siemen.de (Heinrich Rommerskirchen) writes: > 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.= 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 =E4 in latin-9 is wrong), or it is latin-9 (then =E4 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 --=20 Silence is foo!