GNU bug report logs - #19393
25.0.50; Emacs cannot determine coding system of ISO-8859 encoded files

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>

Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 15:22:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>, 19393 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19393: 25.0.50; Emacs cannot determine coding system of ISO-8859 encoded files
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:39:57 +0100

> I've dowloaded the following file
>
>    ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pub/misc/movies/database/movies.list.gz
>
> which contains all movies known to the international movie database
> (IMDb.com).  When I open that file using "emacs -Q movies.list.gz" (or
> unzip it first) and then do M-x describe-coding-system I can see that it
> is "t -- raw-text-unix".  As a result of this, the last movie in that
> file is displayed as "\374\347 (2012) 2012".

I usually delegate such problems to unicad.el.

martin
This bug report was last modified 4 years and 334 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.