[OS X Emacs] recognize UTF 8?
xah lee
xah at xahlee.org
Fri Dec 7 12:54:30 EST 2007
i doubt emacs uses every byte in the file to determine encoding.
if the utf-8 encoding used by emacs adds the BOM mark
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark)
then probably emacs wont make mistakes when opening that file.
> More generally, would it make sense to have Aquamacs store buffer-
> local variables in the resource fork of every file (even though
> resource forks are awkward and not really used much in modern OS X
> days)?
personally i wouldn't want any app to create resource fork. Perhaps
storing a hash table is preferred...
Xah
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On Dec 7, 2007, at 8:40 AM, David Reitter wrote:
When I save a file as UTF-8 (containing the beta character as the
only non-ASCII character), it doesn't seem to be recognized when
loading (it is loaded as iso-latin-1-unix, which is the first choice
according to the priorities.)
Shouldn't it recognize the UTF-8?
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/info2www?(emacs)Recognize%20Coding
doesn't say that it can't do it.
I'm asking here because I don't know if this is supposed to work. (I
know a couple of workarounds myself, -*-coding:-*- and the like, -
that's not what I am looking for.)
Would it make sense to have Aquamacs preferentially load everything
as UTF-8 unless another coding is recognized?
More generally, would it make sense to have Aquamacs store buffer-
local variables in the resource fork of every file (even though
resource forks are awkward and not really used much in modern OS X
days)?
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On Dec 7, 2007, at 8:40 AM, David Reitter wrote:
When I save a file as UTF-8 (containing the beta character as the
only non-ASCII character), it doesn't seem to be recognized when
loading (it is loaded as iso-latin-1-unix, which is the first choice
according to the priorities.)
Shouldn't it recognize the UTF-8?
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/info2www?(emacs)Recognize%20Coding
doesn't say that it can't do it.
I'm asking here because I don't know if this is supposed to work. (I
know a couple of workarounds myself, -*-coding:-*- and the like, -
that's not what I am looking for.)
Would it make sense to have Aquamacs preferentially load everything
as UTF-8 unless another coding is recognized?
More generally, would it make sense to have Aquamacs store buffer-
local variables in the resource fork of every file (even though
resource forks are awkward and not really used much in modern OS X
days)?
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