Radovan Garabik wrote:
> I would much prefer something like "INVALID UTF-8 SEQUENCE" message > displayed when _opening_ the file. That's true, there is no real conversion being done in this situation. I'll try to make that message clearer. > > I think a discussion about whether receiving a latin1 file which is > > automatically converted to UTF-8 counts as being on a UTF-8-only planet > > or not isn't very useful. Point is that you do need the conversion now > > and then. > > point is, latin1 is not the only encoding you are going to encounter > (and way too many users are likely to encounter _other_ default > encodings), and the conversion should be done manually off the editor. > Automatic conversions are evil. I suggest you stay on your UTF-8-only planet (without a history), you clearly won't like the planet most other people are on (with a history of various files laying around). -- Vi is clearly superior to emacs, since "vi" has only two characters (and two keystrokes), while "emacs" has five. (Randy C. Ford) /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.moolenaar.net \\\ /// Creator of Vim -- http://vim.sf.net -- ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim \\\ \\\ Project leader for A-A-P -- http://www.a-a-p.org /// \\\ Lord Of The Rings helps Uganda - http://iccf-holland.org/lotr.html /// -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
