Re: utf-16 not auto-detected when finding file

[Dave Love]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't know which coding systems should be utf-16 in that
> environment.  It seems that at least
> default-file-coding-system should not be utf-16.  Do you
> know a precise recipe of utf-16 environment and when to use
> it?

No, sorry.  You are right about default-file-coding-system, at least.

Maybe it isn't appropriate to do that, but I'd have thought it would
be useful at least for Emacs to auto-detect utf-16.  That isn't likely
to give false positives is it?

(This started with wanting to edit Windows registry dumps, which are
utf-16.)