Re: iso-8859-1 and non-latin-1 chars

[Dave Love]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:

> One of the problems is that before the recent change, iso-latin-1 was
> sometimes outputting non-latin-1 characters (i.e. bytes between
> 128 and 160).  That breaks ispell and can break other programs as well.

As I said, any such problems need fixing in ispell.el and friends.

However, I don't think the above causes ispell misalignment errors --
the original complaint (due to iso 2022 escape sequences being
produced).  Anyway, the current code does nothing about C1 characters,
and there's no parameter to change that behaviour:

(memq 'iso-latin-1
      (find-coding-systems-string (string (make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 #xa3)
                                          128
                                          (make-char 'latin-iso8859-2 #xa3))))
  => nil

(encode-coding-string (string (make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 #xa3)
                              128
                              (make-char 'latin-iso8859-2 #xa3))
                      'iso-latin-1)
  => "\243\200?"