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23.1.92; Archives with wrong coding system

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Message #23 received at 5553 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 5553 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5553: 23.1.92; Archives with wrong coding system
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:12:42 -0500

>> I think that auto-coding-alist should allow mapping not only file-names
>> but also major modes to coding-systems.  This should hopefully take care
>> of those issues by mapping image-mode and archive-mode to no-conversion.
> I don't understand how this is possible because currently a coding system
> should be recognized before mode is chosen:

This is the reason why my suggestion did not come with a patch ;-)
This said, I don't think it's impossible, but it would require
a reorganization indeed.


        Stefan

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