Re: No i-search for € in iso-8859-16 coded buffer

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Peter Dyballa <address@hidden> writes:

> In a buffer starting with ';;; -*- mode: Text; coding: iso-8859-16; 
> -*-' (-r: in the mode-line) and holding the characters in the range 
> 160-255 i-search for € is not successful:

>       € = 244 = 164 = A4 = U+20AC = E2 82 AC : EURO SIGN

Sorry, I have forgotten to reply to this mail when I
installed a fix.

Now, isearch translates a typed character by
translation-table-for-input to a character that fits with
the coding system of the buffer.   So, the above search
should succeed.

But, please note that if the buffer contains a character
that can't be encoded by the buffer's coding system, isearch
can't find such a character.  For instance, if you do
(insert #xf24), which inserts EuroSign of iso-8859-15, in
iso-8859-16 buffer, isearch can't find it.

We can't improve this situation in the current Emacs 22
without huge amount of nontrivial changes.

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Kenichi Handa
address@hidden