Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.)

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> We don't want to raise the priority of windows-1252 because it would
> cause many other encodings not to be recognized.
>
> If it turns out that windows-1252 files are the main cause of
> 8-bit-control characters in the buffer, here's another idea.

Sorry I haven't followed the entire thread, but here's an idea:

A Windows-1252 file most likely originated on Windoze, so what about
only raising the priority when the file has CRNL line endings?

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk