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Re: ISO-8859-1 encoded file names and UTF-8
From: |
Karl Eichwalder |
Subject: |
Re: ISO-8859-1 encoded file names and UTF-8 |
Date: |
Sat, 08 Mar 2003 19:25:25 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> And what is the value of `default-file-name-coding-system'? If it's
> anything but `utf-8', please try setting `file-name-coding-system' to
> `utf-8' and see if that helps.
I did ask for help; I reported a problem worth fixing ;) It is a
reather serious problem, IMO.
> This would contradict the whole purpose of a multilingual Emacs: it is
> meant to seamlessly display characters from different character sets
> without any special effects.
This might be appropriate when you use Emacs for reading mail and
news. But it's a wrong behavior when it come to "source code"
> How can Emacs know that in this particular case, you want it to
> display different character sets differently?
When a XML file or a PO file (that's a message file used by gettext) is
declared as UTF-8 encoded and Emacs detects an error within such a
file, it's surely worth notifying the user.
> I believe that if such a feature is added, it must be driven by
> user-level settings. For example, users could define a list of
> character sets or codepoints which they don't expect to see in their
> buffers, and Emacs will then flag characters from those sets with some
> visual cue.
Yes, approximately. But instead of a list of character sets it must
depend on a list of file types (.xml, .po, .java, etc.).
> It's even possible that you can do that yourself right now by using
> hi-lock.el or something similar, since IIRC regular expressions can be
> used to express character categories.
Thanks for advice :) I know how to work around the problem; for checking
.po files one can use 'msgfmt' etc. I'd rather vote to change Emacs to
make users happy -- that's probably not that urgent, but it should
happen for the next major release coming from CVS HEAD.
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Re: ISO-8859-1 encoded file names and UTF-8, Kenichi Handa, 2003/03/19
Re: ISO-8859-1 encoded file names and UTF-8, Richard Stallman, 2003/03/21
Re: ISO-8859-1 encoded file names and UTF-8, Richard Stallman, 2003/03/20