Re: Emacs 22.1.90 can't save chinese-gb2312 file

[Zhang Wei]

On 2/1/08, Zhang Wei <address@hidden> wrote:
> When I save a file in gb2312 coding system, I got the following
> compliant, all of the chinese punctuation characters can't be encoded
> with gb2312:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> These default coding systems were tried to encode text
> in the buffer `test':
>  chinese-iso-8bit
> However, each of them encountered characters it couldn't encode:
>  chinese-iso-8bit cannot encode these: ， 。 、 ？
>
> Click on a character (or switch to this window by `C-x o'
> and select the characters by RET) to jump to the place it appears,
> where `C-u C-x =' will give information about it.
>
> Select one of the safe coding systems listed below,
> or cancel the writing with C-g and edit the buffer
>   to remove or modify the problematic characters,
> or specify any other coding system (and risk losing
>   the problematic characters).
>
>  utf-8 utf-16 utf-16 utf-16 utf-16be utf-16le iso-2022-7bit
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> C-u C-x = gives:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  character: 。 (302786, #o1117302, #x49ec2, U+3002)
>    charset: mule-unicode-2500-33ff (Unicode characters of the range
> U+2500..U+33FF.)
>  code point: #x3D #x42
>     syntax: w  which means: word
> buffer code: #x9C #xF2 #xBD #xC2
>  file code: not encodable by coding system chinese-iso-8bit
>    display: by this font (glyph code)
>     -outline-Courier
> New-normal-r-normal-normal-13-97-96-96-c-*-iso10646-1 (#x3002)
>
> [back]
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

This bug crept in due to the changes of w32term.c since 2007-12-12, I
think, when I revert the changes of this file, the bug is gone.