From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
Subject: Re: Have Emacs guess the charset?
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:13:23 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877kvz2ix8.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33d6njfy0.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:25:43 +0200")
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:
>
>> Well, if someone were to forward the message to me, I could see if
>> XEmacs were any more clever than GNU Emacs. Better still, I could
>> then forward that on and ask the MULE hackers what they think about
>> doing it.
>
> What -- you mean you don't get any spam in mangled big5? Wow.
Heh. I don't /keep/ any spam mangled in big5, and I don't fancy waiting
long enough for some to arrive.
> Anyway, I'll mail you one...
Cool.
>> You could supply a list of the various far-east encodings to that,
>> which /should/ prefer those to the western encodings. Not that the
>> function is likely to do much for the western encodings anyway.
>
> But we don't know what encodings there are in the buffer.
>
> But I guess we could look for clues -- for instance, if any of the
> headers are encoded with big5 (and marked as such), we could use that
> as a clue...
That could be it. Otherwise, you could try just giving a set of likely
encodings such as big5, which will not be autodetected in any standard
western character set.
Not that this is such a great idea... at least, not unless it's
customizable by the user.
Daniel
--
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting;
it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-20 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-15 14:01 Kai Großjohann
2001-08-19 20:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-08-19 23:46 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-08-20 0:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-08-20 1:26 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-08-20 6:35 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-08-20 7:26 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-08-20 8:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-08-20 9:13 ` Daniel Pittman [this message]
2001-08-20 10:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-08-20 9:34 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-08-20 10:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-09-01 16:32 ` Dave Love
2001-08-21 0:07 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-08-21 21:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-09-01 16:32 ` Dave Love
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