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Re: lessen user alarm when coding system is questioned
From: |
Kenichi Handa |
Subject: |
Re: lessen user alarm when coding system is questioned |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Dec 2001 11:12:49 +0900 (JST) |
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SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.1.30 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) |
"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.
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Ken'ichi HANDA
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