From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Bigler <Emmanuel.Bigler@ens2m.fr>, 7962@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7962: 23.2; capitalize letters ISO-8859-1 with diacritic signs in emacs 23.2.1
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:17:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbckn4ph.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin8Jbo=wb_2MMjxgaJK78Ver4M2coxc22Ap8TY9@mail.gmail.com> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Thu, 3 Feb 2011 22:39:01 +0100")
On 2011-02-03 22:39 +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:49:22 +0100
>>> From: Emmanuel Bigler <Emmanuel.Bigler@ens2m.fr>
>>> Cc:
>>>
>>> However I am reluctant to switch to UTF-8 for all my texts in English,
>>> German, French, even Icelandic etc... i.e. Western European languages,
>>> the only ones I'll ever typeset, which are perfectly handled in
>>> unibyte iso-8859-1.
>>
>> You seem to assume that going multibyte requires that your files be
>> encoded in UTF-8. That simply isn't true. The files can continue be
>> encoded in ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15; Emacs will decode them into its
>> internal representation when you visit the file and encode it back
>> when you save it. You lose nothing.
>
> But does that require that you mark those files as coded in ISO-8859-1 etc?
For reliability, yes. Otherwise Emacs cannot really know the encoding
and has to guess if a byte with value 164 means ¤ (ISO-8859-1) or €
(ISO-8859-15), for instance. Converting the files to UTF-8 solves this
ambiguity, of course.
Sven
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-03 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-02 10:35 bug#7962: 23.2; capitalize letters ISO-8859-1 with diacritic signs in emacs 23.2.1 Emmanuel Bigler
2011-02-02 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-02 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-03 13:34 ` Emmanuel Bigler
2011-02-03 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-03 18:01 ` Emmanuel Bigler
2011-02-03 18:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-03 18:49 ` Emmanuel Bigler
2011-02-03 21:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-03 21:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-03 22:17 ` Sven Joachim [this message]
2011-02-03 22:22 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-03 22:35 ` Sven Joachim
2011-02-04 10:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-04 12:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-04 12:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-04 13:02 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-04 13:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-04 13:11 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-04 13:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-04 13:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-04 13:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-04 13:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-04 14:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-04 14:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-04 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-04 15:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-04 15:20 ` Jason Rumney
2011-02-04 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-04 16:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-04 17:08 ` Emmanuel Bigler
2011-02-04 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-04 21:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-05 9:27 ` bug#7962: 23.2; capitalize letters ISO-8859-1 [SOLVED, MANY THANKS TO ALL] Emmanuel Bigler
2011-02-05 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-04 8:00 ` bug#7962: 23.2; capitalize letters ISO-8859-1 with diacritic signs in emacs 23.2.1 Emmanuel Bigler
2011-02-04 8:09 ` Emmanuel Bigler
2011-02-04 8:22 ` bug#7962: 23.2; capitalize / ISO 8859 / UNIBYTE / utf-8 backward compatibility Emmanuel Bigler
2011-02-04 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-03 18:49 ` bug#7962: 23.2; capitalize letters ISO-8859-1 with diacritic signs in emacs 23.2.1 Stefan Monnier
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