From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Rose Subject: Re: Insert link with "foreign" character - cannot save Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:17:01 +0100 Message-ID: <87einseqhe.fsf@gmx.de> References: <000001ca637a$8f7c04f0$ae740ed0$@se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NBcj5-0002W7-Do for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:17:15 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NBcj1-0002SM-Rf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:17:15 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43666 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NBcj1-0002SE-Nb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:17:11 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:49182) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NBcj1-0002qc-6G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:17:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Carsten Dominik's message of "Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:03:16 +0100") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Carsten Dominik writes: > Hi Mattias, > > I tried that, and my buffer swiched to unicode encoding automatically. > > Unfortunately I don't know much about coding systems, and so I do > not know how to fix this. > > Anyone???? > > - Carsten > > On Nov 12, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Mattias J=C3=A4mting wrote: > >> (I'm using English Windows Vista x64, Emacs 23.1 and Org-mode 6.32b) >> >> So i'm doing C-u C-c C-l to browse for a file in order to insert a link = to >> it. >> >> The path and/or the filename contains for instance an =C3=B6 (an o with = two dots >> above it, also the swedish word for "island"), which gets translated in = my >> org-file as \366. >> >> When I try to save the file I see the message: >> >> These default coding systems were tried to encode text >> in the buffer `jwd.org': >> (utf-8-dos (79 . 4194294)) >> However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode: >> utf-8-dos cannot encode these: These default coding systems were tried >> to encode text >> in the buffer `jwd.org': >> (utf-8-dos (79 . 4194294)) >> However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode: >> utf-8-dos cannot encode these: \366 >> >> Next I tried to hack myself a fix :-) >> >> I added (?\366 . "%F6") to org-link-escape-chars and ran make on it agai= n, >> but it didn't seem to work. It's true, you cannot encode the bytes with dec. values above 127 in utf-8 (see `man utf-8', unicode.org, whatever). Seems your filenames are not utf-8 encoded. Here it works, because on current Linux distros (and MAC OS??) filenames are utf-8 encoded: C-u C-c C-f n=C3=A4 TAB RET [[file:n=C3=A4chtes-n=C3=B6tiges.org][Umlaute in Dateinamen]] Maybe, if the file is from an old system, rename it (twice, to give it the original name) and try again. Would that work? There's an interesting discussion going on on emacs-devel, that might be related (but it's not about filenames). You may read the entire thread here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-11/msg00661.html The fazit so far, as I understood it, is, that Emasc 23 distinguishes single and multibyte strings. Better not use array functions to handle strings (which are multibyte internaly) in Emacs 23. The OP did (setq nl "\n") (aset nl 0 ?=C3=B1 (insert nl) which sets the first _byte_ of an array to 241, which in turn has no valid representation on screen as character in Unicode (see `man urf-8' and unicode.org). Thus Emacs insert \361 - for some reason :) Sebastian