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From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: coding tags and utf-16
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:33:43 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1EuMop-0006QZ-00@etlken> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EuM4r-00051L-Sf@fencepost.gnu.org> (rms@gnu.org)

In article <E1EuM4r-00051L-Sf@fencepost.gnu.org>, "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     If a file is encoded without BOM, we must use the less
>     reliable heuristics to guess utf-16be or utf-16le.  If you
>     find a coding-tag spec by ignoring all zero bytes at even
>     byte indexes, it means that the file is, in high
>     possibility, utf-16be whatever the tag value is.  If you
>     find a coding-tag spec by ignoring all zero bytes at odd
>     byte indexes, it means that the file is utf-16le whatever
>     the tag value is.

> Does Emacs already implement these heuristics?

No.

>     But, those are anyway just heuristics; not 100% reliable.
>     So I think we need a user option to turn it on and off, or
>     perhaps a user option to select which kind of heuristics.

> Should we install this option now?

I can't tell whether or not it's important enough to install
now because I never encountered a utf-16 file.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-05  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-21  8:00 coding tags and utf-16 Werner LEMBERG
2005-12-23 23:43 ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-12-24 16:32   ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-04  6:42 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-04 14:58   ` Werner LEMBERG
2006-01-05  3:46   ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-05  4:33     ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2006-01-05 12:24       ` David Kastrup
2006-01-06  0:27         ` Andreas Schwab
2006-01-05 23:11       ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-06  1:22         ` Werner LEMBERG
2006-01-06 11:26         ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-07  4:23           ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-07  6:05             ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-05 15:56   ` Stefan Monnier
2006-01-06  6:31     ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-06 10:28       ` David Kastrup
2006-02-09  0:32         ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-02-28  1:08           ` Kenichi Handa
2006-03-04 20:34             ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2006-03-06 13:04               ` Kenichi Handa
2006-03-06 19:35                 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2006-03-07  1:02                   ` Kenichi Handa
2006-03-08  5:42               ` Tomas Zerolo
2006-03-16  2:23             ` Kenichi Handa

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