Re: EMACS (sid) and UTF-8/ISO-8859-1
Hi,
From: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>
Subject: EMACS (sid) and UTF-8/ISO-8859-1
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:42:45 -0800
> SGML should be in ISO-8859-1 to be properly formatted with TeX tool
> chain into PDF and PS. Everytime he commit a file, there are few
> accented Italian characters in UTF-8 these days.
IMO, ASCII is better than ISO-8859-1, because some people (who want
to edit the file) might not have ISO-8859-1-enabled environment since
it is a local encoding which is bound to specific languages and
geometric regions, just like some people don't have EUC-JP (another
local encoding)-enabled environment.
I also have a doubt that how the Italian person added UTF-8 characters
for a file which already have ISO-8859-1 characters. It is simply
illegal and sane text editors must not be able to do such a thing.
However,
(set-language-environment "Latin-1")
may help you in such a case. And more, writing
-*-coding: iso-8859-1;-*-
at the first line of the file will be detected by emacs.
---
Tomohiro KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>
http://www.debian.or.jp/~kubota/
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