Re: unibyte buffers won't display latin-1 characters

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <2427-Sat31Aug2002091855+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il>, "Eli Zaretskii" 
<eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
>>  You don't want conversion while reading the compressed or encrypted
>>  file, but after uncompressing or unencrypting it, you probably at that
>>  point want to perform conversion if, and as, Emacs would have done so
>>  reading the same data out of a file with the corresponding name.
>>  Is there any way to do that?

> Yes.  A Lisp program which needs to do that should invoke
> detect-coding-region and then decode the text with
> decode-coding-region.

> (That's an oversimplification: the code should pay attention to
> coding-system-for-read if non-nil, support the coding: tags, invoke
> find-operation-coding-system, etc.)

I long ago wrote the function
archive-set-buffer-as-visiting-file in arc-mode.el.  It does
almost the same thing.  It may be worth generalizing this
function so that it can be use in the similar situation.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@etl.go.jp