Re: utf-16 not auto-detected when finding file

[Dave Love]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> I think it's possible to detect utf-16 by using heuristics
> with high accuracy.  I'll try it in emacs-unicode.

Yes.  Perhaps someone knows exactly what Windows does (assuming the
only significant use of it is in Windows)?
>
> If they have common name or extension, we can add it in
> file-coding-system-alist.  Do they?

As far as I remember, .reg is a recognized extension which invokes
regedit, but I don't know whether it would be correct or particularly
useful to add .reg.