"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author: David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.utf8 > > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:05:45AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > - ISO 8859 files should be free of C1 and most C0 codes (except > > > > for the usual LF/TAB). > > > > > > I have also had Emacs 20 garble data because of the above assumption > > > :( > > > > What were you editing? Many C0 codes (except CR/LF/TAB/FF/BS/VT) and C1 > > codes are basically binary garbage; an ISO-8859-* document that > > contains them is really more some type of rich text or binary format. > > > > Files with control codes as markup. More common than you seem to > think.
For something like that, I could certainly accept that Emacs could not guess the encoding. But I would rather see it ask about unusual cases instead of guessing wrong. -- D. Dale Gulledge, Sr. Programmer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] C, C++, Perl, Unix (AIX, Linux), Oracle, Java, Internationalization (i18n), Awk. - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
