From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: \225 and so on Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 22:30:51 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049769490 18187 80.91.224.249 (8 Apr 2003 02:38:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 02:38:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 08 04:38:06 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192izS-0004hy-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 04:37:38 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 192j3F-000843-00 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 04:41:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192iyG-0007ba-0A for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 22:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192iwk-00079N-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 22:34:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192iuU-0005lI-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 22:32:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192isw-0004VW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 22:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 192ist-0000pD-00; Mon, 07 Apr 2003 22:30:51 -0400 Original-To: Andreas Schwab In-reply-to: (message from Andreas Schwab on Mon, 07 Apr 2003 17:37:48 +0200) Original-cc: handa@etl.go.jp X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13004 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13004 |> I often get files that are basically plain ASCII but have a few of |> Microsoft's special characters such as \222 and \225. Emacs does not |> seem to cope with these files very well. One time recently it |> suggested iso-8859-15 iso-8859-14 utf-8 mule-utf-16-be mule-utf-16-le. |> |> Can you please work on more natural handling for these characters? What would you consider natural? It should be treated as Latin-1, or perhaps as Latin-whatever based on one's usual coding system preferences.