From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gaetan.leurent@ens.fr (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ga=EBtan?= LEURENT) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Editing exportet registry files Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 20:52:30 +0200 Message-ID: References: <42C45594.9090207@iue.tuwien.ac.at> <1120201971.42c4ecf37e342@l01.iue.tuwien.ac.at> <85vf3ul8sj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org 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 1120244245 30287 80.91.229.2 (1 Jul 2005 18:57:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 18:57:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 01 20:57:24 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoQgM-0008EY-1h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 20:56:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoQor-0004dP-Cy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 15:04:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoQiP-0003yA-UQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:58:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DoQiH-0003tS-8b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:58:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DoQiF-0003qE-DA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:58:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [129.199.96.40] (helo=nef2.ens.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DoQi0-0001yq-5O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:57:52 -0400 Original-Received: from clipper.ens.fr (clipper-gw.ens.fr [129.199.1.22]) by nef2.ens.fr (8.13.2/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id j61IqUqO071536 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 20:52:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Envelope-To: Original-Received: from (leurent@localhost) by clipper.ens.fr (8.13.1/jb-1.1) X-Authentication-Warning: clipper.ens.fr: leurent set sender to gaetan.leurent@ens.fr using -f Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Start-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 20:47:20 +0200 X-Spook: PLO Kosovo Yukon AFSPC wire transfer Pine Gap 9705 Samford Road bomb dictionary Skipjack enigma threat Medco MIT-LL Mole In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri, 1 Jul 2005 20:01:14 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (usg-unix-v) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.10 (nef2.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Fri, 01 Jul 2005 20:52:30 +0200 (CEST) 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:40046 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40046 Juanma Barranquero wrote on 01 Jul 2005 20:01:14 +0200: >> Shouldn't the utf-x files with signature be quite in front of the list >> of detected coding systems? I mean, that's what the signature is good >> for in the first place, right? > > Well, yeah, but FF and FE *are* valid characters in many encodings. > Latin encodings for most european language environments are going to > be higher up the priority list, for example. Well, a Latin-1 file is quite unlikely to begin with =AB=A0=FE=FF=A0=BB or = =AB=A0=FF=FE=A0=BB. > Are there environments (operating systems, language environments, > whatever) where utf-16 is the norm? I think it's the case on MS Windows. --=20 Ga=EBtan LEURENT