Re: Displaying bytes

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Seems to me that use of iso-8859-* is much more widespread on *nix
>> systems.
> As far as I understand, an iso-8859-1 user won't notice any
> difference.

They'll notice a difference when opening a file that's neither latin-1
nor windows-1252 but which happens to fall within the range of
windows-1252 (which is the case for most non-latin1 files).

> We have done something similar (see `mm-charset-override-alist') in
> Gnus for displaying mis-labelled articles.

It's very different: it's perfectly OK to treat a latin-1 message or
file as if it were windows-1252.  It'll almost always DTRT.  The problem
is when we have to guess the coding-system, in which case checking
windows-1252 instead of latin-1 will give you more false positives.


        Stefan