Re: Strange behaviour with dired and UTF8

[Jan D.]

lördagen den 3 maj 2003 kl 17.59 skrev Stephen J. Turnbull:

> > > > > > "Jan" == Jan D <address@hidden> writes:
>
>     Jan> But then you would be using non-printable latin-1 characters.
>
> That's impossible.  By definition, all Latin 1 is printable

Then every implementation of isprint() is wrong :-).  Character
128-159 is not printable, I think.  Nor is the non-printable part
that is in the ASCII subset.

>     Jan> I don't think this is something one has to handle.
>
> Maybe not you.  Emacs has high standards, though. :-)

Emacs would have to be able to read minds to do this correctly.
It is possible to make a buffer contain characters that looks fine
when viewed as UTF-8, but Emacs can not know if the user actually
wanted this to be latin-1.  It is just an interpretation of how
octets shall be viewed.  That is why I would like to say to
dired "Show me these file names interpreted as UTF-8" and then
later "show me these file names interpreted as latin-1", and also
be able to operate on the files.

        Jan D.