Re: local chars displayed as numbers

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Reiner Steib <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:30:38 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden,
>       Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> 
> On Fri, Sep 22 2006, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> What is the benefit to treat it as raw-text instead of window-1252
> assuming that the file only contains characters from window-1252?  We
> are taking about a file (> 300000 chars of text) with mostly ASCII,

You are clearly thinking about text files.  But what about binary
files?  Decoding them as window-1252 by default doesn't sound like a
good idea to me.