From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/38099 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Have Emacs guess the charset? Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:34:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <871ym71ulx.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> <87r8u7zfl8.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> <87r8u76vl0.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035173733 19043 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:15:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:15:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 4656 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2001 09:35:08 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 20 Aug 2001 09:35:08 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id LAA05345 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:34:41 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id LAA11215; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:34:41 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id F2A21201D; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:34:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:25:43 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.0.105 Original-Lines: 27 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38099 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:38099 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Daniel Pittman 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 -- Symbol's function definition is void: signature