Re: ediff and coding systems

[Eli Zaretskii]

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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