Re: Displaying bytes

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Nov 25 2009, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

>>>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Kenichi Handa wrote:
>
>>> If so, should we change the default priorities?
>
>> I'm not sure.  As it seems that windows-1252 is a superset of
>> iso-8859-1, 

It is, yes.

>> it may be ok to give windows-1252 the higher priority.
>
> Please don't.
>
> I wonder why one would even *think* of changing Emacs's default to a
> Microsoft proprietary "code page". :-(

Just because it has "windows" in its name?  IIRC it is registered at
IANA.

>> How do iso-8859-1 users think?
>
> Seems to me that use of iso-8859-* is much more widespread on *nix
> systems. 

As far as I understand, an iso-8859-1 user won't notice any
difference.  Only if the file is _not_ iso-8859-1 and "fits" in
windows-1252 (e.g. it uses one of the few chars that make the
difference).

We have done something similar (see `mm-charset-override-alist') in
Gnus for displaying mis-labelled articles.

> I think the current default priorities are perfectly fine.

Bye, Reiner.
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