Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.

[Sebastian Rose]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup writes:
>>  > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>  > > I meant pre-existing corruption [...]
>>  > 
>>  > That interpretation is not the business of the editor.
>>
>> Precisely my point.  The editor has *no* way to interpret at the point
>> of encountering the invalid sequence, and therefore it should *stop*
>> and ask the user what to do.  That doesn't mean it should throw away
>> the data, but it sure does mean that it should not continue as though
>> there is valid data in the buffer.
>>
>> Emacs is welcome to do that, but I am sure you will get bug reports
>> about it.
>
> Why would we get a bug report about Emacs saving a file changed only in
> the locations that the user actually edited?
>
> People might complain when Emacs does not recognize some encoding
> properly, but they certainly will not demand that Emacs should stop
> working altogether.


People do indeed complain on the emacs-orgmode mailing list and I can
reproduce their problems.

You may read the details here:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg19778.html

`M-x recode-file-name' doesn't work either.


I guess this is related?





Best wishes

      Sebastian