From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Editing exportet registry files Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 13:50:05 +0200 Message-ID: References: <42C45594.9090207@iue.tuwien.ac.at> <1120201971.42c4ecf37e342@l01.iue.tuwien.ac.at> <85vf3ul8sj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> 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 1120305297 14551 80.91.229.2 (2 Jul 2005 11:54:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 11:54:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 02 13:54:55 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Doga9-0000ls-BK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 13:54:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DogbE-0004Vf-V5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 07:55:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DogaR-0004TY-JH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 07:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DogaL-0004RE-4H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 07:55:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DogaK-0004QT-SC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 07:55:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.15] (helo=mx2.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1Dogaw-0001Ni-2C; Sat, 02 Jul 2005 07:55:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B242317EE2; Sat, 2 Jul 2005 13:50:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero X-Yow: AIEEEEE! I am having an UNDULATING EXPERIENCE! In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sat, 2 Jul 2005 01:38:04 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:40094 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40094 Juanma Barranquero writes: > 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. Among the 8-bit encodings supported by glibc there are IMHO no encodings which have a significant probability of being misdetected as UTF-16. The= y either don't define both code points, or define them to characters that are very unlikely to occur next to each other, let alone at the start of = a file. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."