Re: coding tags and utf-16

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:

>>      But, those are anyway just heuristics; not 100% reliable.
>>      So I think we need a user option to turn it on and off, or
>>      perhaps a user option to select which kind of heuristics.

>>  Should we install this option now?

>     I can't tell whether or not it's important enough to install
>     now because I never encountered a utf-16 file.

> Werner sent a message explaining how another program handles
> them.  Is it feasible to implement that in Emacs?

> Would it be so much of a complication that we should
> not install it now?

As Werner wrote, his method is still in progress.  And, it
seems that "emitting warning" is an important point in his
method.  But I think it's not a trivial change to enable
Emacs to emit warning while (or after) detecting a code.

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Kenichi Handa
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