>>> "AS" == Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

   > On Jul 18 2019, Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:
   >> 2. Why can't emacs detect and display these files automatically?

   > It is impossible to distinguish single-byte encodings.

Hm in the old days of pre mule, I am pretty sure emacs opened these
files correctly.


   >> Besides if I did not know the coding in advance what were I
   >> supposed to do?

   > Guess.

Ok, but I still don't understand why 

iconv -f ISO8859-8 -t UTF-8 

AND


iconv -f CP1255 -t UTF-8 

Work

 is CP1255 and iso8859-8 the SAME coding?