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#7962
23.2; capitalize letters ISO-8859-1 with diacritic signs in emacs 23.2.1
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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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Le 03/02/2011 22:19, Eli Zaretskii a écrit :
>> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:49:22 +0100
>> From: Emmanuel Bigler<Emmanuel.Bigler <at> ens2m.fr>
>> Cc:
>>
>> However I am reluctant to switch to UTF-8 for all my texts in English,
>> German, French, even Icelandic etc... i.e. Western European languages,
>> the only ones I'll ever typeset, which are perfectly handled in
>> unibyte iso-8859-1.
>
> You seem to assume that going multibyte requires that your files be
> encoded in UTF-8. That simply isn't true. The files can continue be
> encoded in ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15; Emacs will decode them into its
> internal representation when you visit the file and encode it back
> when you save it. You lose nothing.
>
OK Eli. I'm trying to understand and this is a bit tricky.
Now I'm entering into **very** strange things ; I hope somebody can
explain what's going on. This is emacs 23.2.93.1
1/ in an emacs buffer I load a test-file created years ago with a
program, a list of unibyte characters that I display as iso-8859-1. All
characters are displayed properly.
2/ I (toggle-enable-multibyte-characters nil) : unibyte characters
already present in the files do not change and are displayed correctly.
I type a fresh sequence of letters with diacritic signs at the end of
the buffer : OK. I toggle back to unibyte : freshly entered letters
appear as 2-byte sequences. OK
3/ now I cut-paste a line of the old unibyte file and enter a fresh
letter with diacritic sign in thye middel of this line ; I'm still in
2-byte codeing/display : the letter entered in the middle of unibytes
seems to stay unibyte !!
Is this a bug, a feature, or misconceptions / misunderstandings on my
side ??
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From Sven :
> IMO offering to convert them to UTF-8 would be more helpful. The
> legacy encodings ought to die some day.
Exactly like legacy software should die some day ; (ahem) : who said :
"exacty like emacs, an old and obsolete software, that I've been using
for 25 years..." ;-);-)
--
Emmanuel
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