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23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k

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Message #158 received at 2497 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> f2s.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 2497 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: David Engster <deng <at> randomsample.de>, uwe.siart <at> tum.de
Subject: Re: bug#2497: 23.0.91; Fails to read UTF-8 on Win2k
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:16:22 +0800

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> You are right.  But in my case, it was not enough to test for
> "iso-8859-", as the symbol's name was "iso-latin-1", not "iso-8859-1".
>
> I installed the patch below, that does seem to fix the problem with
> the OP's .gnus.el, although I don't know how general that problem is,
> nor whether Emacs is capable of distinguishing UTF-8 from Latin-N in
> general.
>   

I installed a further change for the case where latin-extra-code-table 
is not a vector. But I don't understand why we have this table, and why 
the default value allows the 6 C1 control codes PU1, PU2, STS, CCH, MW 
and SPA to appear in latin text without breaking the auto detection. Are 
these control characters really that common?

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