GNU bug report logs - #3607
23.0.94; odd character in fringe.el

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:10:06 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #67 received at 3607 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 3607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com,
        tlikonen <at> iki.fi
Subject: Re: bug#3607: 23.0.94; odd character in fringe.el
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:39:34 +0900

In article <jwv63ef4e6w.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Actually, AFAIK the "unlikely false positives" property of the utf-8
> encoding is not only true when applied to latin-1 files but also to most
> other encodings.  So really utf-8 should probably always be first (not
> only for latin-1 environments), except maybe for some envs where there's
> a knows non-negligible risk of false positives.

I think it's only Latin-X (and perhaps Vietnamese too) that
are mostly safe to give utf-8 the higher priority on code
detection, because only they use Latin script in which 8-bit
characters rarely appear succeedingly.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa <at> m17n.org
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