Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author: David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.utf8 > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:05:45AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > - ISO 8859 files should be free of C1 and most C0 codes (except > > > for the usual LF/TAB). > > > > I have also had Emacs 20 garble data because of the above assumption > > :( > > What were you editing? Many C0 codes (except CR/LF/TAB/FF/BS/VT) and C1 > codes are basically binary garbage; an ISO-8859-* document that > contains them is really more some type of rich text or binary format. >
Files with control codes as markup. More common than you seem to think. -hpa -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at work, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/