From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: coding tags and utf-16 Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:26:45 +0900 Message-ID: References: <20051221.090033.182620434.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136552264 5372 80.91.229.2 (6 Jan 2006 12:57:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 12:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 06 13:57:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eur9y-0003Cg-MV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:57:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EurBk-0005N9-Tb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:59:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EuqXn-0000As-Mj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:18:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EuqGd-0003gl-B8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:01:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Euplz-0001Uy-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:28:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.47.44.130] (helo=tsukuba.m17n.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1Eupng-0001VG-HW; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:30:29 -0500 Original-Received: from nfs.m17n.org (nfs.m17n.org [192.47.44.7]) by tsukuba.m17n.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id k06BQlcT011024; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:26:47 +0900 Original-Received: from etlken (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) by nfs.m17n.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id k06BQlCc012406; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 20:26:47 +0900 Original-Received: from handa by etlken with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Eupk5-0000Ux-00; Fri, 06 Jan 2006 20:26:45 +0900 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (rms@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:48789 Archived-At: In article , "Richard M. Stallman" writes: >> 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. > Werner sent a message explaining how another program handles > them. Is it feasible to implement that in Emacs? > Would it be so much of a complication that we should > not install it now? As Werner wrote, his method is still in progress. And, it seems that "emitting warning" is an important point in his method. But I think it's not a trivial change to enable Emacs to emit warning while (or after) detecting a code. --- Kenichi Handa handa@m17n.org