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Re: How to make emacs auto-recognize utf-8 encoded files upon visiting
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Dominic Cronin |
Subject: |
Re: How to make emacs auto-recognize utf-8 encoded files upon visiting |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:57:01 +0200 |
On 23 Sep 2002 18:39:19 +0200, Gerald Wildgruber
<gwil.remove.this.phrase@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to make my emacs (GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 on linux) auto-recognize
>the right encoding when visiting files with utf-8 encoding. The emacs info
>help entry says on the topic:
>
>"Some coding systems can be recognized or distinguished by which byte
>sequences appear in the data. However, there are coding systems that cannot
>be distinguished, not even potentially."
>
>Does this also apply to utf-8 encoded files? Is it impossible for emacs to
>auto-recognize them (as for example the `file' command on the shell does)?
The RFC for UTF-8 (see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2279.txt) states:
UTF-8 strings can be fairly reliably recognized as such by a simple
algorithm, i.e. the probability that a string of characters in any
other encoding appears as valid UTF-8 is low, diminishing with
increasing string length.
BTW - the RFC is quite an interesting read: an elegant solution to a
problem.
--
Dominic Cronin
Amsterdam
- Re: How to make emacs auto-recognize utf-8 encoded files upon visiting, (continued)
- Re: How to make emacs auto-recognize utf-8 encoded files upon visiting, Charles Muller, 2002/09/25
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- Re: How to make emacs auto-recognize utf-8 encoded files upon visiting, Miles Bader, 2002/09/25
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- Re: How to make emacs auto-recognize utf-8 encoded files upon visiting, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, 2002/09/25
- tramp, Roger Mason, 2002/09/24
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- Re: How to make emacs auto-recognize utf-8 encoded files upon visiting, A. Lucien Meyers, 2002/09/24
auto-recognize utf-8 encoded files upon visiting: solved (sort of...), Gerald Wildgruber, 2002/09/24
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