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bug#4712: File encoding


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#4712: File encoding
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:04:19 -0400

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:27:33 -0400
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Elmar Zander <ezander@valkyrie.sc.cs.tu-bs.de>,
>       4712@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> 
> > That means that the buffer contains characters that cannot be encoded in
> > iso-8859-1-unix.
> 
> Indeed, but the error message we output is completely unhelpful.
> Rather than select utf-8 and then complain that the tag doesn't match,
> we should say upfront, that the selected latin-1 can't encode all the
> chars in the buffer (and that message can come with the usual thingy
> that shows the offending chars and their location).

Maybe so, but this part of the OP's report:

  value of $LANG: en_AU.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8

indicates that UTF-8 is the "native" encoding on the OP's machine, and
there is an overwhelming user demand for silently and transparently
switch to such a native encoding when we need to select an encoding.





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