From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:42:56 +0900 Message-ID: <87iqcsyehr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <20091119155848.GB1314@muc.de> <87aayiihe9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20091119180848.GE1314@muc.de> <47325.130.55.118.19.1258658705.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <20091119212550.GG1314@muc.de> <87my2ign8u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <912155b0911231334s2b52e8eq864251c9aed386b3@mail.gmail.com> <87y6lpvurt.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259545083 13386 80.91.229.12 (30 Nov 2009 01:38:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:38:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa , per.starback@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 30 02:37:55 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NEvD9-0006ya-AJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:37:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46426 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NEvD8-0007nC-VI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:37:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NEvD3-0007ls-Hu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:37:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NEvCy-0007hY-PN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:37:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59035 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NEvCy-0007hL-J4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:37:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]:42594) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NEvCr-0001J6-Gg; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:37:38 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377771535AE; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:37:36 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8FBE01A290A; Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:42:56 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87y6lpvurt.fsf@kfs-lx.rd.rdm> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" 1444e28f1a3d XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:117942 Archived-At: Kim F. Storm writes: > A Windows-1252 file most likely originated on Windoze, so what about > only raising the priority when the file has CRNL line endings? That turns out not to be true in my experience. There are a lot of European people of my acquaintance who started using 1252 when it had the EURO SIGN (Microsoft put it in well before Euros were in circulation IIRC) and ISO-8859-15 had not yet been published.