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bug#59341: 29.0.50; Lisp files with other encoding than UTF-8?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#59341: 29.0.50; Lisp files with other encoding than UTF-8? |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:54:04 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 11:38:46 -0800
>
> I noticed that codespell was having trouble with one of our files
> (ethio-util.el), refusing to read it as UTF-8. This lead to some
> unexpected and unwanted behavior.
>
> So I took a closer look and found that several files in lisp/ appear to
> be use some other encoding than UTF-8:
>
> $ cd lisp ; for f in $(git ls-files|egrep '.el$'); \
> do file $f | grep -v UTF-8 | grep -v " ASCII" ; \
> done ; cd -
> international/titdic-cnv.el: Lisp/Scheme program, Non-ISO
> extended-ASCII text, with LF, NEL line terminators
> language/ethio-util.el: Lisp/Scheme program, Non-ISO extended-ASCII
> text, with LF, NEL line terminators
> language/ethiopic.el: Lisp/Scheme program, Non-ISO extended-ASCII text
> language/ind-util.el: Lisp/Scheme program, Non-ISO extended-ASCII
> text, with LF, NEL line terminators
> language/tibet-util.el: Lisp/Scheme program, Non-ISO extended-ASCII
> text, with LF, NEL line terminators
> language/tibetan.el: Non-ISO extended-ASCII text, with LF, NEL line
> terminators
> leim/quail/ethiopic.el: Non-ISO extended-ASCII text, with LF, NEL line
> terminators
> leim/quail/tibetan.el: Lisp/Scheme program, Non-ISO extended-ASCII
> text, with LF, NEL line terminators
>
> Should these files be converted to UTF-8?
No. AFAIR, they are in utf-8-emacs because they include characters
beyond the Unicode range, which UTF-8 cannot encode. See, for
example, the codepoints that start around line 645 in ind-util.el,
which are used for converting between IS 13194 (ISCII) and Unicode.
- bug#59341: 29.0.50; Lisp files with other encoding than UTF-8?, Stefan Kangas, 2022/11/17
- bug#59341: 29.0.50; Lisp files with other encoding than UTF-8?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#59341: 29.0.50; Lisp files with other encoding than UTF-8?, Stefan Kangas, 2022/11/17
- bug#59341: 29.0.50; Lisp files with other encoding than UTF-8?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/18
- bug#59341: 29.0.50; Lisp files with other encoding than UTF-8?, Stefan Kangas, 2022/11/18
- bug#59341: 29.0.50; Lisp files with other encoding than UTF-8?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/18
- bug#59341: 29.0.50; Lisp files with other encoding than UTF-8?, Stefan Kangas, 2022/11/18
- bug#59341: 29.0.50; Lisp files with other encoding than UTF-8?, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/19
- bug#59341: 29.0.50; Lisp files with other encoding than UTF-8?, Drew Adams, 2022/11/18
- bug#59341: 29.0.50; Lisp files with other encoding than UTF-8?, Stefan Kangas, 2022/11/18
- bug#59341: 29.0.50; Lisp files with other encoding than UTF-8?, Drew Adams, 2022/11/18