Subject: bug#19393: 25.0.50; Emacs cannot determine coding system of ISO-8859 encoded files

From: Wolfgang Jenkner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:12:36 +0100

On Tue, Dec 16 2014, Tassilo Horn wrote:

>> In any case, some bisecting shows that the first problem is the line
>>
>> Jedna žena – jedan vek (2011)				2011
>>
>> It seems to be encoded in Windows-1250 [1] instead.
>
> Indeed.  How did you search for it?  I guess you didn't just scroll the
> file with open eye.

Bisecting (to base 10 ;-)

$ cp movies.list /tmp/bad && cd /tmp

Then repeat the following 5 or 6 times.

$ split -n10 bad
$ emacs -Q x*
$ cp x... bad
$ rm x*

Just look for the indication of the buffer coding system in the mode
line to find the first bad file at each step.

Wolfgang