Re: Have Emacs guess the charset?

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:
>
>> 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.

Well, as a first step it is enough for me to be able to say: "I think
this is Chinese, what does it say?"  This is better than having to ask
"Show it to me in GB -- does it make sense?"

One little problem is that I don't speak or read Chinese and both
showing it in GB and showing it in Big5 leads to apparently meaningful
Chinese characters -- just different ones.  So unless you know what
characters to look for, it's not easy to say which one of the two is
right.

But on the other hand, if a human can't tell, maybe Emacs can't tell,
either.  And on the third hand, Emacs might know more Chinese than I
do...

kai
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