Re: lessen user alarm when coding system is questioned

[Kenichi Handa]

"Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
> I think your assumption is wrong.  The function which prints that
> message doesn't try to encode the text.  Instead, it computes the list
> of possible ways to encode the text (by looking at certain tables
> which specify, for each character, how can it be encoded), then try to
> match that list with the default coding systems defined by the user's
> environment and preferred encodings.  If these two don't match, Emacs
> pops up the question.

> So the information about the offending characters isn't there to
> begin with.

That's correct.

---
Ken'ichi HANDA
address@hidden