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From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: coding tags and utf-16
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:31:03 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Eul7v-00056E-00@etlken> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1psn61xim.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:56:52 -0500)

In article <m1psn61xim.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>  So, in any cases, a tag value itself is useless.  Then how
>>  to detect utf-16 more reliably?  In the current Emacs
>>  (i.e. Ver.22), I think we can use auto-coding-regexp-alist
>>  or auto-coding-alist.  In the former case, we can register
>>  BOM patterns and also something like "\\`\\(\0[\0-\177]\\)+"
>>  for utf-16be.  In the latter case, you can use more
>>  complicated heuristics in a registered function.

> Can't it be somehow added to detect_coding_utf_16?

Yes, but usually it has no effect if, for instance,
iso-8859-1 is more preferred.  If only ASCII and Latin-1
characters are encoded in utf-16, all bytes (including BOM)
are valid for iso-8859-1.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-06  6:31 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
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 [this message]
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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