Re: coding tags and utf-16

[David Kastrup]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

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

I think the most common occurence would be system files on MS Windows.
The byte markers are very unique: I think we should heed them unless
there are very important technical considerations speaking against it
(one reason would be if the utf-16 encodings were not
content-preserving for saving binary files.  No idea whether this is
the case).

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum