Re: Cannot encode some characters with iso-8859-1 - but which?

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, polypus <address@hidden> writes:

> i am having the same problem. i type C-x <RET> f iso-latin-1 <RET>.
> then when i save a warning buffer opens saying

> "These default coding systems were tried:
>   iso-latin-1-unix mule-utf-8
> However none of them safely encodes the target text.

> Select one of the following safe coding systems: ... "

> in the top buffer containing the file i want to save there is no
> highlighting or visibility of the bad characters that i can see. i have
> scoured the internet about the problem and can find nothing. is there a way
> to see all invisible characters?

Please show us the information that is inserted in *mail*
buffer by M-x report-emacs-bug RET.  And also show us the
file itself, and exactly what you typed before saving it.


> i'm running emacs 21.4.1, ubuntu dapper's default package.

Perhaps, the problem is already fixed in the latest CVS
code.

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Kenichi Handa
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