From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Defaut encoding for XML files should be undefined (instead of utf-8)
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:54:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B61830.6020005@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2abm1voja.fsf@gmail.com>
Edward O'Connor wrote:
> My understanding is that the XML specification requires XML documents
> lacking an explicit <?xml encoding='foo'?> instruction to be UTF-8 or
> UTF-16, so Emacs does the right thing already.
>
Emacs goes beyond doing the right thing at the moment. The right thing
would be to guide users into using utf-8 by making that the default
encoding for *new* XML files, and perhaps warning if an existing file
was detected as non-utf-8 without a charset declaration in the header.
Forcing users into using utf-8 by ignoring explicit requests to save the
file as latin-1 and by opening latin-1 encoded files as utf-8 even when
the decoding fails is not the right behaviour. Our users are not slaves
to specifications.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-15 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-15 9:06 23.0.60; Defaut encoding for XML files should be undefined (instead of utf-8) Sébastien Vauban
2008-02-15 22:32 ` Edward O'Connor
2008-02-15 22:54 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2008-02-15 23:24 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-15 23:34 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-15 23:42 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-16 3:42 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-18 2:49 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-18 3:01 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-16 4:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-16 7:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-16 9:58 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-16 11:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-16 12:07 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-02-17 3:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-17 14:31 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-02-17 22:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-17 22:27 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-18 0:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-18 3:16 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-18 6:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-18 6:40 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-19 7:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-19 7:19 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-19 21:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-19 22:47 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-19 22:58 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-20 0:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-19 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-02-19 22:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-18 14:59 ` Projects and multi-file documents (was: 23.0.60; Defaut encoding for XML files should be undefined (instead of utf-8)) Stefan Monnier
2008-02-18 18:51 ` Projects and multi-file documents Ralf Angeli
2008-02-18 16:35 ` 23.0.60; Defaut encoding for XML files should be undefined (instead of utf-8) Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-02-16 17:03 ` Jason Rumney
2008-02-16 17:31 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-17 3:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-18 3:22 ` Miles Bader
2008-02-18 6:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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