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Subject: Re: [Q]: Is this a safe practice ?
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:28:51 +0200
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On Mon, Oct 11 2004, Xavier Maillard wrote:

> I am not a charset/encoding expert at all and I would like to
> know wether this:
>   (add-to-list 'mm-charset-synonym-alist
> 	       '(iso-8859-15 . iso-8859-1)))
>
> Is a safe practice or not ? Is there any risk ?

It's simply incorrect.  Especially for French the oe/OE ligatures
(=BD/=BC) are relevant.  See e.g.
<URL:http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/latin9.html>.

BTW, hiding text in `application/emacs-lisp' attachment is also not a
good idea.

Bye, Reiner.
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