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Re: letters like é
From: |
David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: letters like é |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:25:52 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 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".
>
> If we get an invalid UTF-8 sequence, I'm all for it. But it is not
> too difficult to not get invalid sequences but still have wrong
> output.
Theoretically. But it is impossible to write just a single non-ASCII
byte without hitting an invalid sequence since all non-ASCII bytes must
be part of multi-byte sequences. Only combinations of non-ASCII bytes
can form valid utf-8 sequences, and the probability of several of them
being "just right" is not all that high.
--
David Kastrup
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