From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juanma Barranquero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Editing exportet registry files Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 01:38:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: <42C45594.9090207@iue.tuwien.ac.at> <1120201971.42c4ecf37e342@l01.iue.tuwien.ac.at> <85vf3ul8sj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Juanma Barranquero NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120261910 4187 80.91.229.2 (1 Jul 2005 23:51:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 23:51:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 02 01:51:40 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoVI9-0000GN-1a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 01:51:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoVQg-0008QB-LC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 20:00:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoVMC-0007RG-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:55:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoVM5-0007NA-Qr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:55:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoVM1-0007B9-Sj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:55:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.196] (helo=nproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DoVAO-0002bK-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:43:28 -0400 Original-Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so94621nfe for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:38:04 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=OcqL2ai5S72JOSHHsatk+NHucQwuqeusRbBZrJK0Rn89cf2RLowI+ewmwDGqx7ypNAaife0MeN26qxJF15EfflZ784LXFYqEzknsg25Am3acWRN4VZ9kLZhIRdO/ztMhHFt7QAai+1QbCS61zdhPa96wXOtTFL21YtWnmixzj1k= Original-Received: by 10.48.250.12 with SMTP id x12mr63778nfh; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.250.5 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:38:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline 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:40065 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40065 On 7/2/05, Jason Rumney wrote: > Juanma Barranquero writes: > How common is it to have FF FE or FE FF as the first two characters in > text in any other encoding? Pretty uncommon. I haven't said otherwise. I'm just pointing out what I suppose is the original reason to not putting the utf-16 encodings higher up on the list. > because of some theoretical worry that it > might break a hypothetical case that I suspect will only exist in real > life if someone deliberately sets out to break auto-detection. I've not checked other encodings. Did you? Are you really sure that all other frequently used 8-bit encodings put uncommon characters for 0xFF and 0xFE? Because the fact that they aren't ASCII doesn't mean that they are infrequent in the target language. > Nonsense. It is very unlikely that UTF-16-LE-WITH-SIGNATURE, > UTF-16-BE-WITH-SIGNATURE, or even UTF-8 will falsely match any Latin > (or cyrillic or probably Asian) encoding. I lack the confidence that you apparently have. I suppose you're better informed than me (I'm not being facetious). So just change it, or propose it to be changed. (And perhaps it'd be wise to hear what Handa-san thinks about it.) --=20 /L/e/k/t/u