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Re: Automatic encoding guessing

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Subject: Re: Automatic encoding guessing
From: David Starner <dstarner98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:15:33 -0500
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:05:45AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >   - ISO 8859 files should be free of C1 and most C0 codes (except
> >     for the usual LF/TAB).
> 
> I have also had Emacs 20 garble data because of the above assumption
> :(

What were you editing? Many C0 codes (except CR/LF/TAB/FF/BS/VT) and C1
codes are basically binary garbage; an ISO-8859-* document that
contains them is really more some type of rich text or binary format.

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