Re: [Q] Handle bytes in the range 0x80-0xC0 better when dealing with ISO-IR 196.
David Kastrup writes:
And the point is that Emacs 22, even Emacs 21 _manage_ dealing with
this, even when (in a Latin-1 locale or a LaTeX that believes to be in
one) utf-8 sequences get only partly transliterated by TeX and thus
fails to be legal utf-8.
My point is that if you're doing all that work anyway, it's not all
that much extra work to do it on the binary representation, then
convert what you think is UTF-8 yourself.
Agreed, XEmacs *should* do it for you. I would love to get the
capability to be able to output "most" of a buffer (ie, except for
"small" regions around changes) exactly as it was read in. I just
disagree that Aidan's approach is a good one, especially since it
implies that we will have to support these warts indefinitely (that's
part of Aidan's proposal).
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