Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly

[tomas@tuxteam.de]

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:01:29AM +0200, Juri Linkov wrote:
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> Unicad (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Unicad) uses statistic models
> to auto-detect windows-1252 and many many other coding systems
> (auto-detecting windows-1252 is not advertised on the main page,
> but actually can be observed in source code).  The theory is described
> at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/UniversalCharsetDetection.html
> I hope sometime this will be added to Emacs.

It looks theoretically quite neat. I hope this too -- the current
heuristics are often at a loss.

Ironically, the cited page at mozilla doesn't display correctly in my
browser (of all things mozilla!). Setting to auto-detect guesses UTF-8
whereas it's latin-1 -- as correctly advertised in the headers :-)
(yes, it's off-topic and it's most-probably some miscofiguration on my
side, but I thought some might savour the irony).

But I also feel that we need more systematic heuristics. I'll give
Unicad a try.

Regards
- -- tomás
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