From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can emacs pick proper coding system intelligently?
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:04:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-69A0EB.21041827042008@newsgroups.comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2mynekfox.fsf@mac.com
In article <m2mynekfox.fsf@mac.com>,
Scott Heftler <lovecraftian@mac.com> wrote:
> You'd think that, when emacs encounters these \205s, it would KNOW to
> pick windows-1252.
How would it know that. \205 is not unique to that coding system, it
exists in many different coding systems.
Think of it like Paint By Numbers. The coding system is the translation
from numbers to colors. You can't just look at a picture, and know
which translation scheme to use just because it contains the number 10.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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2008-04-28 0:04 Can emacs pick proper coding system intelligently? Scott Heftler
2008-04-28 1:04 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2008-04-28 2:40 ` Scott Heftler
2008-04-28 3:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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