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Re: letters like é


From: Janek Warchoł
Subject: Re: letters like é
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:46:39 +0100

2011/12/29 Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>:
>
>>>>> Most accidental uses of other encodings can't be confused with
>>>>> valid UTF-8 characters.  Maybe we could produce an error message
>>>>> that is informative enough to help the user resolve the problem
>>>>> on his own?
>>>
>>> I don't think this is possible.
>>
>> Why?
>
> How will you discern intended and unintended input?  Additionally, due
> to FontConfig providing a fallback mechanism for missing characters,
> you normally don't get warnings if you are getting a `strange' letter.

What about a "maybe error" message?  Something like "you file doesn't
use utf-8 encoding.  For best results you may want to save your input
encoded in utf-8, see Program Usage Manual chapter x section y for
more information".

cheers,
Janek



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