Re: Jed and utf-8... a pre-pre-pre-plea :-)

["John E. Davis" <davis>]

Romano Giannetti <romano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>fly). The actual contents of the buffer is irrelevant --- probably the only
>possible thing to do is to keep it consinstent with the locale, otherwise
>you have to invent an input strategy from zero --- a la yudit.

Suppose that the file on disk uses an ISO-LATIN character set.  In
particular, consider the upside-down exclamation point character (¡)
given by character code 161.  When a file containing this character is
read under a UTF-8 locale, it will be displayed as the 4 character
sequence <A1>, since by itself it represents an illegal UTF-8 encoded
sequence.  A command such as

    set_charset ("iso-latin-1");

will convert an illegal sequence such 161 to its two character UTF-8
equivalent 0xC2 0xA1.  That is, specifying a character set could
actually cause the bytes in a buffer to change.

--John

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