Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Stefan Monnier writes:

 > The problem with windows-1252 is that all files are valid in that
 > coding-system.

Well, *pedantically* that's true of any ISO 8859 coding system too,
since ISO 8859 doesn't specify what might appear in C1 at all.  In
practice for 1252

1.  The only C0 controls you'll commonly see are \t, \r, and \n.
2.  The set of C1 controls that are defined is limited IIRC (but
    Microsoft does go around changing it without warning, so I could
    be wrong by now ;-).
3.  It's line-oriented text (even if long-lines): you'll very probably
    see \r and \n only as \r\n, you might see only \n and no \r, and
    you'll not see "random" use of \r or \n.