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By author:    David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> 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
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