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Re: coding tags and utf-16
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Kenichi Handa |
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Re: coding tags and utf-16 |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:04:32 +0900 |
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In article <address@hidden>, Benjamin Riefenstahl <address@hidden> writes:
> 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>.
That's why I wrote "unless ..." part. For decoding UTF-8,
we should not delete that BOM but treat it as the content of
the text. For UTF-16, Unicode explicitly says that "The BOM
is not considered part of the content of the text", but for
UTF-8, it doesn't say such a thing.
Anyway, as Unicode doesn't recommend but doesn't inhibit BOM
in UTF-8 either, if people agree, I'll add it too.
>>> ("\\`\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?
Actually utf-16-be is an alias of utf-16be-with-signature
(more precisely, an alias of mule-utf-16be-with-signature)
and is different from utf-16be (and we don't have
utf-16-be-with-signature). I have a responsibility for this
confusing naming. I long ago mistakenly accepted and
committed those names (utf-16-[bl]e), and now keeping them
for backward compatibility. Anyway I agree that using
utf-16[bl]e-with-signature here is better.
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Kenichi Handa
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