Re: coding tags and utf-16

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

>     If a file is encoded without BOM, we must use the less
>     reliable heuristics to guess utf-16be or utf-16le.  If you
>     find a coding-tag spec by ignoring all zero bytes at even
>     byte indexes, it means that the file is, in high
>     possibility, utf-16be whatever the tag value is.  If you
>     find a coding-tag spec by ignoring all zero bytes at odd
>     byte indexes, it means that the file is utf-16le whatever
>     the tag value is.

> Does Emacs already implement these heuristics?

No.

>     But, those are anyway just heuristics; not 100% reliable.
>     So I think we need a user option to turn it on and off, or
>     perhaps a user option to select which kind of heuristics.

> Should we install this option now?

I can't tell whether or not it's important enough to install
now because I never encountered a utf-16 file.

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Kenichi Handa
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