David Rogers <[email protected]> writes: > In very general terms, it shouldn't be right to be "mangling" > encodings by hand in *any* kind of project. It should be possible to > find an encoding that does the job correctly the first time. That's > what computers are for...
It is actually rather hard for an editor to preserve a byte stream when it interprets the characters at the same time (search and replace can't be hit and miss). Some encodings (escape-based codings) can't do that reasonably at all. utf-8 is still quite hard (basically, you have to convert anything not in the proper uniquely-encoded utf-8 set into quoted bytes, and use something not in the proper utf-8 set for representing quoted bytes). So there are very few editors around that won't mangle files just by loading and saving with a wrong idea of its encoding. Emacs is one of the few editors that manages quite well, while the developers of its offspring XEmacs (which has different character handling, having been forked while both only supported 8-bit encodings) so far call this an impossible task. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
