Re: Locales and Emacs 21

["D. Dale Gulledge" <dsplat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Starner wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:44:14AM -0400, D. Dale Gulledge wrote:
> > is saved the same way.  So I guess my question is whether there is
> > already a tool out there that will tell me whether a file is UTF-8 or
> > ISO 8859.
> 
> Recent versions of file. It's not 100%, but unless all you have is
> Nestle'(r) (in iso-8859-1) in the file, it should get it right.

I tried it.  For the files I have `file' correctly distinguished between
UTF-8 and 8859.  It is not able to determine which flavor of 8859, but I
expected that.

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