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Re: coding tags and utf-16
From: |
Benjamin Riefenstahl |
Subject: |
Re: coding tags and utf-16 |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:34:37 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Kenichi Handa writes:
>> ("\\`\xEF\xBB\xBF" . utf-8)
>
> As far as I know, UTF-8 should not start with this sequence unless
> the text really starts with ZWNBSP (very unlikely).
UTF-8 can start with a BOM. See
<http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#29>.
>> ("\\`\xFE\xFF" . utf-16-be)
>> ("\\`\xFF\xFE" . utf-16-le)
>
> Although it's not clear how safe they are, if no one objects,
> I'll add them in auto-coding-regexp-alist.
Shouldn't those be utf-16-[bl]e-with-signature? Or has the naming
convention changed?
benny