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Re: Automatically Saved Files Employ Different Coding
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Automatically Saved Files Employ Different Coding |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:13:45 -0500 |
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:23:26AM -0500, Alexander Winston wrote:
> > Note that it looks ... _mostly_ the same. But not exactly. [And this
> > is assuming you have `utf-translate-cjk-mode' turned on; otherwise, it
> > couldn't ready any of the CJK characters.]
>
> Actually, the UTF-8 version appears better than the original.
It doesn't matter if it `looks better' -- information loss is information
loss. [If you want something that _really_ can't be encoded in utf-8, try
this: get a buffer with the `C-h h' output, and then insert a single
extra character with: `C-q 237 RET'. Now try to save it....]
> I'm unsure as to why Emacs has problems converting Arabic to UTF-8 from
> the original encoding, as I normally do not encounter any problems using
> Arabic.
I don't know, but emacs' utf-8 support is hardly perfect...
-Miles
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