RE: Automatic recognition of some specific coding systems

["Jürgen Hartmann" <juergen_hartmann_@hotmail.com>]

Sorry for the delay of my response: I just was busy to recover my system
from a nasty hard disk failure. But now mail service is back up again...

So, thank you, Eli Zaretskii, for giving this solution the right twist:

>> So one could think about a regular expression
>> that matches this unique EOL pattern.
>  
> A more reliable test might be characters whose codepoints are between
> 128 and 159: those should generally be absent from ISO-8859 encodings.
> (Emacs doesn't use this fact for good reasons, but in your specific
> case those reasons should not matter, I think.)

That's great: I didn't recognize this distinctive feature. Of course this is
by far the better test: It is more specific, since it is per se related to
the actual task. I think this is the approach to favor.

When my system is restored again, I will try to implement it, reporting the
findings.

Juergen