[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
bug#25365: 25.1; Coding system for bookmarks and desktop
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#25365: 25.1; Coding system for bookmarks and desktop |
Date: |
Mon, 09 Jan 2017 20:49:35 +0200 |
> From: Dmitri Paduchikh <dpaduchikh@gmail.com>
> Cc: 25365@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 22:07:49 +0500
>
> It may be hard to know what is happening if it is designed to happen
> automatically. So, if you insist on supporting user choice here, please
> consider the following patch. It adds the check of workability of the chosen
> codec unless it is given directly by user in which case the usual procedure
> applies, or the codec is omnipotent. In the case of encodability problems it
> will fallback to utf-8-emacs.
With the proposed patch, the fallback utf-8-emacs will happen
silently, so the user will have no idea that her selected encoding was
ignored, isn't it so? If so, I don't think it's a good idea to do
that, when the user explicitly asks for a particular encoding.
Come to think of that, I actually don't understand why anything is
needed in addition to the current code: if the user-chosen encoding
cannot safely encode the bookmark file, Emacs will refuse to save the
file, and will insist on the user providing a safe encoding. E.g.,
set a bookmark in TUTORIAL.ru, and then try saving the bookmark file
using the Latin-1 encoding. I just tried something like that, and the
effect was exactly as I expected: Emacs requested me to provide
another encoding.
Thanks.