Hello guys, I think all recent xemacs have problem around MULE coding-detection codes since version 21.5.6 or 21.5.7 that fails coding-detection for some kinds of multi-byte character encodings in the iso_8_2 category, e.g. EUC-JP. Because of this problem, I was using version 21.5.5 for quite long time. Recently, I could have time to dig the problem and found what's hapeen when coding-detection fails. Here I try to write the problem. Please fix the problem. *PROBLEM* coding-detection fails to guess the coding-system under some condition *DESCRIPTION* Since MULE coding-detection are designed to find what coding-system is most appropriate one for a given text on user's current environment as quick as possible, the logic to guess the coding-system is implemented to analyze ONLY SMALL FRAGMENT OF TARGET TEXT. But, the implementation of iso_8_2 detection logic seems to be so stubborn that cannot allow mis-detection and forget the fact that it only analyzes small fragment of text. On coding-systems within iso_8_2 category, i.e. EUC-JP, texts usually include both of iso_8_2(multi-byte) characters and ascii(1-byte) characters, e.g. even pure Japanese text in EUC-JP usually includes 1-byte characters such as LF(0x0a), of course most of texts we write includes not only control-characters but also ascii characters such as 'XEmacs'. Because of this, the fragment of target text given for coding-detection logic can be incomplete string, i.e. the first byte and the last byte of text fragment can be incomplete multi-byte character and the logic must consider this fact. *SOLUTION* I made a very simple patch to relax the condition of iso_8_2 detection to allow sampling-error. Of course I know there may be more complete and smart way, but I didn't dig XEmacs entirely so that I can write such a smart solution. --- src/mule-coding.c.orig Mon Jan 13 17:46:44 2003 +++ src/mule-coding.c Thu Jun 5 04:49:22 2003 ＠＠ -2935,8 +2935,12 ＠＠ else DET_RESULT (st, iso_8_1) = DET_SOMEWHAT_LIKELY; } +#if 1 + else if (data->even_high_byte_groups > 0) +#else else if (data->odd_high_byte_groups == 0 && data->even_high_byte_groups > 0) +#endif { #if 0 SET_DET_RESULTS (st, iso2022, DET_SOMEWHAT_UNLIKELY); *For more complete solution* The logic counts data->odd_high_byte_groups must take the fact that 'text fragment (of DEFINITELY VALID TEXT represented in a coding-system of iso_8_2 category) can have incomplete multi-byte characters at the first and the last byte' under consideration. Especially, current logic increments data->odd_high_byte_groups even if the last byte of TEXT FRAGMENT is *eventually* a part of (incomplete) multi-byte character. If (data->odd_high_byte_groups != 0), current logic never guess the text can be in iso_8_2 category. There's another way such as to calculate the error-rate of data->odd_high_byte_groups for iso_8_2 to ignore some small value of data->odd_high_byte_groups as sampling-error. Anyway, I believe above description may help the maintainer to fix the problem. Thanks in advance, -- Fuyuhiko MARUYAMA <fuyuhik8(a)is.titech.ac.jp&gt; Matsuoka laboratory, Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology.