Re: problem with old hebrew latex files in iso 8859-8 coding

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

   >> From: Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>
   >> Cc: Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>,
   >> address@hidden
   >> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:17:12 +0300
   >> 
   >> > Try renaming the file to document.bin and resend it as octet-stream...
   >> 
   >> Thanks for pointing it out! I will do that 

   > This file is encoded in codepage 1255, the MS-Windows Hebrew
   > encoding.  So you can display it correctly like this:

   >   C-x RET c cp1255 RET C-x C-f document RET


That works, thanks, BUT


C-x RET c iso8859-8 RET C-x C-f document RET

Also works!

Two comments

    1. Are these  codings  basically the same?

    2. Why can't emacs detect and display these files automatically?
       Besides if I did not know the coding in advance what were I
       supposed to do?

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