From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: coding tags and utf-16 Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:34:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20051221.090033.182620434.wl@gnu.org> <85vewxodk2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1141526386 5159 80.91.229.2 (5 Mar 2006 02:39:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 02:39:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kevin Rodgers Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 05 03:39:45 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFj9s-00022t-69 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2006 03:39:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFj9x-0006Iq-3Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:39:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FFdT6-000350-NT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:35:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FFdSz-0002x3-OZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:35:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FFdSz-0002wL-2Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:35:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.99.153.30] (helo=seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FFdUu-0002QN-9f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:37:04 -0500 Original-Received: from seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net.turtle-trading.net (seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by seneca.benny.turtle-trading.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k24KYbLo027417; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 21:34:44 +0100 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Kenichi Handa's message of "Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:08:36 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (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:51203 Archived-At: Hi, Kenichi Handa writes: >> ("\\`\xEF\xBB\xBF" . utf-8) > > As far as I know, UTF-8 should not start with this sequence unless > the text really starts with ZWNBSP (very unlikely). UTF-8 can start with a BOM. See . >> ("\\`\xFE\xFF" . utf-16-be) >> ("\\`\xFF\xFE" . utf-16-le) > > Although it's not clear how safe they are, if no one objects, > I'll add them in auto-coding-regexp-alist. Shouldn't those be utf-16-[bl]e-with-signature? Or has the naming convention changed? benny