From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: problem with old hebrew latex files in iso 8859-8 coding Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:27:11 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87zhlbtw7z.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <83blxry35u.fsf@gnu.org> <87o91rtulo.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <87sgr38rux.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <878ssvtu47.fsf@mat.ucm.es> <8336j3y0zf.fsf@gnu.org> <87r26nscwo.fsf@mat.ucm.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="132488"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2.90 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uwe Brauer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 18 15:27:27 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1ho6RT-000YJV-1R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:27:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37972 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ho6RR-0008Hy-Mn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:27:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33608) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ho6RJ-0008He-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:27:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ho6RI-0005qK-EL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:27:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:37678 helo=mx1.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ho6RF-0005ol-Pz; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:27:13 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Original-Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29C08AE8D; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 13:27:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: Is this my STOP?? In-Reply-To: <87r26nscwo.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (Uwe Brauer's message of "Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:14:15 +0300") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:238654 Archived-At: On Jul 18 2019, Uwe Brauer wrote: > 2. Why can't emacs detect and display these files automatically? It is impossible to distinguish single-byte encodings. > Besides if I did not know the coding in advance what were I > supposed to do? Guess. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."