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Re: MULE: incorrect utf-8 recoding
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: MULE: incorrect utf-8 recoding |
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Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:37:44 -0500 |
> > From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden>
> > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:19:30 -0500
> >
> > > Well, for one thing, it changes the way Emacs encodes buffers with
> > > mixed iso8859-x character sets, right?
> >
> > Well, yes, that's the whole point: currently it can't do it
> > unless you use iso-2022 whereas with ucs-tables it now can.
>
> Sure. But that means that when this mode is turned on, Emacs will
> suggest (or maybe even silently do it automatically; I didn't
> actually try) to save such a buffer as UTF-8. What if some users out
> there actually _want_ iso-2022 in those cases?
Then, they should select it explicitly, of course.
> Note that I'm just thinking aloud; I don't actually know any users who
> set things up that way. But if there are, they might not like the
> new default.
I'm pretty sure they're dwarfed by the number of users who can't
save their latin-9 buffer because it contains a few latin-1 chars.
Stefan
- Re: MULE: incorrect utf-8 recoding, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/12
- Re: MULE: incorrect utf-8 recoding, Stefan Monnier, 2001/12/12
- Re: MULE: incorrect utf-8 recoding, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/12
- Re: MULE: incorrect utf-8 recoding, Stefan Monnier, 2001/12/12
- Re: MULE: incorrect utf-8 recoding, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/12
- Re: MULE: incorrect utf-8 recoding,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: MULE: incorrect utf-8 recoding, Sam Steingold, 2001/12/12
- Re: MULE: incorrect utf-8 recoding, Stefan Monnier, 2001/12/12
- Re: MULE: incorrect utf-8 recoding, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/12