From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: coding tags and utf-16
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:24:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85vewysvzk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EuMop-0006QZ-00@etlken> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:33:43 +0900")
Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:
> "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Should we install this option now?
>
> I can't tell whether or not it's important enough to install
> now because I never encountered a utf-16 file.
I think the most common occurence would be system files on MS Windows.
The byte markers are very unique: I think we should heed them unless
there are very important technical considerations speaking against it
(one reason would be if the utf-16 encodings were not
content-preserving for saving binary files. No idea whether this is
the case).
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-05 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-21 8:00 coding tags and utf-16 Werner LEMBERG
2005-12-23 23:43 ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-12-24 16:32 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-04 6:42 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-04 14:58 ` Werner LEMBERG
2006-01-05 3:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-05 4:33 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-05 12:24 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-01-06 0:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-01-05 23:11 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-06 1:22 ` Werner LEMBERG
2006-01-06 11:26 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-07 4:23 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-07 6:05 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-05 15:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-01-06 6:31 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-06 10:28 ` David Kastrup
2006-02-09 0:32 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-02-28 1:08 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-03-04 20:34 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2006-03-06 13:04 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-03-06 19:35 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2006-03-07 1:02 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-03-08 5:42 ` Tomas Zerolo
2006-03-16 2:23 ` Kenichi Handa
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