From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yuri Khan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Casting as wide a net as possible Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 00:19:17 +0600 Message-ID: References: <87zixcud1t.fsf@fastmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1450117185 28008 80.91.229.3 (14 Dec 2015 18:19:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:19:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Random832 Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 14 19:19:45 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a8Xip-00022h-W9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:19:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33210 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8Xip-0001nd-4g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:19:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42915) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8Xik-0001nQ-Tz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:19:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8Xij-0008NF-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:19:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-lb0-x235.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c04::235]:33364) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a8Xij-0008N2-Ha for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:19:37 -0500 Original-Received: by lbbkw15 with SMTP id kw15so111935332lbb.0 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:19:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=SQopIUKEz9bW0orUMNwHuVQpahVkVfZn0viQ05QkKdA=; b=Fey74CTDLtBpJzD4vFCqItch2VKO8kLZ0xSSto3uPZK2+2dkeacvZqGsAHy3D+EFYT Hzc0fLTaCvBjq9a0W3e2L+ulCXamjlvtVCzvPf1sqdskqxzWuR1bHZZH7Pled0HCkBHe xRw30vsFYc4j9HqgNwkhYQ70hFroofDmEy7w24/w3L1XKIba/EdxPKsh7zdiu4rGBePp H3tYKb3oKiPpMoSljDZIrr1euf88vM/VHesF7MGLaWixJCQnGz9MIwUHn5VMEpF6SSxv PmNVyoFykEQYSkHNzbmQRjkhZRjsVB+zsClUKkiJi0rAVtVxXyoqAVaXzUKsp1H5qLi+ tR7Q== X-Received: by 10.112.137.132 with SMTP id qi4mr14516491lbb.120.1450117176801; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:19:36 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.112.129.163 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:19:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87zixcud1t.fsf@fastmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: n8EGVEOCH5b5XsUHQQgpAiITKk4 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c04::235 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:196255 Archived-At: On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:59 PM, Random832 wrote: >>> English natives have worse problems with encodings. >> >> What do you mean? Just interesting. > > The definition of "worse" is subjective, but I think what he's > referring to is the fact that someone might open a file in the > wrong encoding, without noticing or caring that some accented > word or punctuation symbol in some paragraph deep within the > file looks wrong, add more content in the new encoding, save > it... then you have a file which has a mixture of bytes in > different encodings, which is very difficult to fix > automatically. > > Whereas, if you open a file in Cyrillic (or, say, Japanese), you > know immediately that it's in the wrong encoding and won't do > any editing until the coding situation is fixed. That=E2=80=99s exactly what I meant.