From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.) Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:19:34 +0100 Message-ID: <87y6lpvurt.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> References: <20091119155848.GB1314@muc.de> <87aayiihe9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20091119180848.GE1314@muc.de> <47325.130.55.118.19.1258658705.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <20091119212550.GG1314@muc.de> <87my2ign8u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <912155b0911231334s2b52e8eq864251c9aed386b3@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259535464 25779 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2009 22:57:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: per.starback@gmail.com, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Kenichi Handa To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 29 23:57:37 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NEshy-0002V8-VM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:57:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59526 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NEshy-0008HD-FT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:57:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NEshC-0007uw-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:56:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NEshB-0007uO-9a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:56:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36077 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NEshB-0007uG-3i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:56:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [90.185.1.42] (port=56481 helo=smtp.fullrate.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NEsh6-0004K8-Qr; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:56:41 -0500 Original-Received: from kfs-lx.rd.rdm.cua.dk (3008ds4-amb.0.fullrate.dk [90.184.173.162]) by smtp.fullrate.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 826A99CEDD; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:19:35 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:01:21 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Greylist: delayed 2214 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at monty-python; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:56:32 EST X-Greylist: delayed 2222 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at monty-python; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:56:40 EST X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117935 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > We don't want to raise the priority of windows-1252 because it would > cause many other encodings not to be recognized. > > If it turns out that windows-1252 files are the main cause of > 8-bit-control characters in the buffer, here's another idea. Sorry I haven't followed the entire thread, but here's an idea: A Windows-1252 file most likely originated on Windoze, so what about only raising the priority when the file has CRNL line endings? -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk