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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>
> Cc: Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:14:15 +0300
> 
> C-x RET c iso8859-8 RET C-x C-f document RET
> 
> Also works!
> 
> Two comments
> 
>     1. Are these  codings  basically the same?

They are very close, yes.

>     2. Why can't emacs detect and display these files automatically?

It's impossible to distinguish between single-byte encodings without
elaborate linguistic analysis, which need sufficiently large text (and
Emacs doesn't know how to do that anyway).

>        Besides if I did not know the coding in advance what were I
>        supposed to do?

You are supposed to guess based on what you know about the files.