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Re: Encoding - - - WHAT is going on !?!?!
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Encoding - - - WHAT is going on !?!?! |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:09:05 GMT |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> When I switch Emacs to Chinese-py input mode and write the Chinese
> charecters for "Dongfang Hong" (never mind what that is, it's Chinese all
> right)
> - and specifically try to save in ISO-8859-1, by using C-enter c ISO-8851-1
> C-f C-w dongfanghome.txt
> -- then the file dumps (xxd) to:
> 0000000: 1b24 4136 2b37 3d3a 6c1b 2842 0a .$A6+7=:l.(B.
> -- which is ISO2022-something and not what I asked for ??
> I know that what I asked for is impossible, but hey, should Emacs not have
> warned me ?
Agreed. Please report it as a bug with M-x report-emacs-bug.
The problem is probably that iso-2022-foo is one of your "default"
encodings, so if the encoding you specified doesn't work, this iso-2022-foo
is used instead silently.
> Also, can anyone tell me the difference between no-conversion and raw-text ?
raw-text does end-of-line conversion.
Stefan