Re: Encoding trouble

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Denis Bitouzé <denis.bitouze@univ-littoral.fr> writes:
>
>> Le 30/01/22 à 15h52, David Kastrup a écrit :
>>
>>> That would be pretty annoying for people working with any Latin-x
>>> encoding other than Latin-1 (or in general, any encoding not in Emacs
>>> default autodetection set).
>>
>> In case of encoding Emacs cannot detect, AUCTeX would rely of the
>> `inputenc` option.

That does not even make sense since all of the Latin-x options are the
same in autodetection.  They cannot be distinguished since they use the
same code points.

Essentially, a Latin-1 user would get every Latin-x except Latin-1
displayed wrongly.  And the same for Latin-2 users and so on.

>>> Emacs showed you what LaTeX would have shown you.
>>
>> I'm not sure to see your point here.
>
> Where is the point in letting Emacs input display different than LaTeX
> would interpret it?

-- 
David Kastrup