From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: \225 and so on Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:47:18 +0900 (JST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200304080447.NAA14014@etlken.m17n.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049777549 10597 80.91.224.249 (8 Apr 2003 04:52:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 04:52:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 08 06:52:27 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192l5v-0002ke-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:52:27 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 192l9l-0000tR-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:56:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192l5J-0005gD-0B for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 00:51:49 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192l4L-0004hd-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 00:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192l21-0002Yq-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 00:48:26 -0400 Original-Received: from tsukuba.m17n.org ([192.47.44.130]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192l1p-0002Ku-00; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 00:48:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fs.m17n.org (fs.m17n.org [192.47.44.2])h384lJo20565; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:47:19 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) h384lIA20062; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:47:18 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id NAA14014; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 13:47:18 +0900 (JST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 07 Apr 2003 22:30:51 -0400) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.2.92 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Original-cc: schwab@suse.de X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13011 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13011 In article , Richard Stallman writes: > |> I often get files that are basically plain ASCII but have a few of > |> Microsoft's special characters such as \222 and \225. Emacs does not > |> seem to cope with these files very well. One time recently it > |> suggested iso-8859-15 iso-8859-14 utf-8 mule-utf-16-be mule-utf-16-le. > |> > |> Can you please work on more natural handling for these characters? > What would you consider natural? > It should be treated as Latin-1, or perhaps as Latin-whatever based on > one's usual coding system preferences. Currently, \222, \223, \224 are registered in latin-extra-code-table. We can add \225 to it. And, by paying attention to latin-extra-code-table in find-coding-systems-region-internal, we can make Emacs to work as you wish. I'll work on it soon. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org