GNU bug report logs - #7962
23.2; capitalize letters ISO-8859-1 with diacritic signs in emacs 23.2.1

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Emmanuel Bigler <Emmanuel.Bigler <at> ens2m.fr>

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 14:42:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.2

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #44 received at 7962 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Emmanuel Bigler <Emmanuel.Bigler <at> ens2m.fr>, 7962 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: bug#7962: 23.2;
	capitalize letters ISO-8859-1 with diacritic signs in emacs 23.2.1
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:35:37 +0100

On 2011-02-03 23:22 +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> For reliability, yes.  Otherwise Emacs cannot really know the encoding
>> and has to guess if a byte with value 164 means ¤ (ISO-8859-1) or €
>> (ISO-8859-15), for instance.  Converting the files to UTF-8 solves this
>> ambiguity, of course.
>
>
> Is it sure that Emacs in the future will always do the same guess
> about encoding for files that have no explicit coding in them?

This is not even the case today, depending on your locale environment
Emacs will guess differently for ¤/€.

> If not then perhaps it would be good to add a function to emacs that
> helps users add comments about explicit coding to a bunch of files.

IMO offering to convert them to UTF-8 would be more helpful.  The legacy
encodings ought to die some day.

Cheers,
       Sven
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