Re: unencodable-char-position [Re: Several serious problems]

[Stefan Monnier]

>     I implemented that and tried on several files.  But, it
>     seems that such kind of feature is not that helpful.
> 
>     In the case that the buffer contains many unencodable chars,
>     usually the specified coding system is wrong, and we must
>     use a different coding system.  So, it is not that
>     interesting to know where are the other unencodable
>     characters.
> 
>     In the case that the buffer contains a few unencodable
>     chars, as it's seldam that more than one of them appear in
>     one window, highlighting the other unencodable chars is not
>     that useful.
> 
> These seem like persuasive arguments; it sounds good.
> 
> How can I make a test case to observe it functioning?
> I tried but I couldn't get encoding to "fail".

Try to save the HELLO file in utf-8.


        Stefan