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chinese big5: not WYSIWYG if saving in emacs-mule coding


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: chinese big5: not WYSIWYG if saving in emacs-mule coding
Date: 13 May 2002 17:38:17 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1

Us big5 users should be alert to
buffers where
Coding system for saving this buffer:
  = -- emacs-mule
Coding system for terminal output:
  B -- chinese-big5 (alias: big5 cn-big5)

because all there is is a slightly different modeline; we don't notice
that what we save is not what we see.  There could be some ugly non
big5, non ASCII thing in there and we would never know because it
looks great in emacs, but for some reason looks different when we do
cat in the shell.  Also when we do $ file filename, we get Non-ISO
extended-ASCII English text instead of ISO-8859 English text, for what
it's worth.

Anyway, to ensure what we see is what we get, we big5 users must
insure that
Coding system for saving this buffer:
  B -- big5-unix
Coding system for terminal output:
  B -- chinese-big5 (alias: big5 cn-big5)
[odd how the first doesn't have "chinese" prepended.]
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