From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Per Starbäck" <per.starback@gmail.com>
Cc: dak@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:47:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ND4AD-0003Yg-Cc@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <912155b0911231334s2b52e8eq864251c9aed386b3@mail.gmail.com> (message from Per Starbäck on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:34:18 +0100)
$ od -c euro.txt
0000000 T h a t c o s t s 200 1 7 . \n
0000020
$ emacs euro.txt
This is really a windows-1252 file and the strange character is
supposed to be a Euro sign.
For me, with no particular setup to make Emacs expect windows-1252
files that shows in emacs as
"That costs \20017." with raw-text-unix.
Why doesn't Emacs guess right, in this case? Could we make it guess
right by changing the coding system priorities? If so, should we
change the default priorities?
It may be that a different set of priorities would cause similar
problems in some other cases and the current defaults are the best.
But if we have not looked at the question in several years, it would
be worth studying it now.
In that case revert-buffer-with-coding-system. Ideally I'd like Emacs
to ask directly when opening the file
in such a case, if it can't determine anything better than raw-bytes.
Maybe so.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-24 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-18 19:12 [acm@muc.de: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.] Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 1:27 ` Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 8:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 8:50 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-19 10:16 ` Fwd: " Andreas Schwab
2009-11-19 12:21 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 13:21 ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-19 13:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 14:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 14:58 ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-19 15:42 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-19 15:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 15:58 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 16:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-11-19 16:47 ` Aidan Kehoe
2009-11-19 17:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 18:21 ` Aidan Kehoe
2009-11-20 2:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-19 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-19 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-19 19:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-20 3:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-19 16:55 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-19 18:08 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 19:25 ` Davis Herring
2009-11-19 21:25 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 22:31 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-21 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-23 2:08 ` Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.) Stefan Monnier
2009-11-23 20:38 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-23 21:34 ` Per Starbäck
2009-11-24 22:47 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2009-11-25 1:33 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-11-25 2:29 ` Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly Stefan Monnier
2009-11-25 2:50 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-25 6:25 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-25 5:40 ` Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.) Ulrich Mueller
2009-11-26 22:59 ` Displaying bytes Reiner Steib
2009-11-27 0:16 ` Ulrich Mueller
2009-11-27 1:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-27 4:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-25 5:59 ` Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.) Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-25 8:16 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-11-29 16:01 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-29 16:31 ` Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly Stefan Monnier
2009-11-29 22:01 ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-30 6:05 ` tomas
2009-11-30 12:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-11-30 12:39 ` tomas
2009-11-29 22:19 ` Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.) Kim F. Storm
2009-11-30 1:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-24 1:28 ` Displaying bytes Stefan Monnier
2009-11-24 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-25 2:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-26 6:24 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-26 8:59 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-26 14:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-26 16:28 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-27 6:36 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-24 22:47 ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-20 8:48 ` Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-19 19:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-19 20:53 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 22:16 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-20 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-19 20:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 21:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-19 21:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-11-19 23:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 20:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 14:50 ` Jason Rumney
2009-11-19 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 23:12 ` Miles Bader
2009-11-20 2:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-20 3:37 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-20 4:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-20 7:18 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-20 14:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21 4:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21 5:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21 6:42 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21 6:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21 7:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-23 1:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-21 12:33 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-21 13:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21 14:36 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-21 17:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-11-21 23:30 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-22 1:27 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-11-22 8:06 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-22 23:52 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-11-19 17:08 ` Fwd: " Alan Mackenzie
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