Re: ediff and coding systems

[Michael Kifer]

Same thing - no luck.

> address@hidden (Michael Kifer) writes:
> 
>   > I cannot reproduce this. I need a simple testcase.
>   > I took lisp/term/mac-win.el and created two copies. One with iso-2022-7bit
>   > and the other with utf-8. But ediffing them did not bring any warnings.
> 
> Please try 
> env LANG=C emacs -q 
> and then ediff the 2 files.
> 
> 
>   > > Michael, could you please look into the following report?  TIA
>   > > 
>   > > > From: Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>
>   > > > Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:21:10 -0700
>   > > > 
>   > > > 
>   > > > lisp/term/mac-win.el from CVS trunk uses:  -*-coding: 
> iso-2022-7bit;-*-
>   > > > and the same file on the emacs-unicode-2 uses: -*-coding: utf-8 
>   > > > 
>   > > > When doing M-x ediff for the above 2 files a *Warning* buffer pops up
>   > > > for each hunk:
>   > > > 
>   > > > These default coding systems were tried to encode text
>   > > > in the buffer ` *ediff-tmp*':
>   > > >   iso-latin-1
>   > > > However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode:
>   > > >   iso-latin-1 cannot encode these: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ...
>   > > > 
>   > > > Click on a character (or switch to this window by `C-x o'
>   > > > and select the characters by RET) to jump to the place it appears,
>   > > > where `C-u C-x =' will give information about it.
>   > > > 
>   > > > Select one of the safe coding systems listed below,
>   > > > or cancel the writing with C-g and edit the buffer
>   > > >    to remove or modify the problematic characters,
>   > > > or specify any other coding system (and risk losing
>   > > >    the problematic characters).
>   > > > 
>   > > >   utf-8 utf-16 utf-16 utf-16 utf-16be utf-16le iso-2022-7bit
>   > > > 
>   > > > with the question "Select coding system (default mule-utf-8):"
>   > > > 
>   > > > Would it be possible for ediff to avoid this?
>   > > > 
>   > > > 
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