Re: Automatic encoding guessing

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

"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
> 
> Followup to:  <20011023131533.A2406@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> By author:    David Starner <dstarner98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> >
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Files with control codes as markup.  More common than you seem to
> think.

For something like that, I could certainly accept that Emacs could not
guess the encoding.  But I would rather see it ask about unusual cases
instead of guessing wrong.

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