> From: Hans Åberg <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:14:30 +0200 > Cc: [email protected], > [email protected] > > If one encounters a file with mixed encodings, it is good to be able to view > its contents and then convert it, as I see one can do in Emacs.
Yes. And mixed encodings is not the only use case: it may well happen that the initial attempt to decode the file uses incorrect assumption about the encoding, for some reason. In addition, it is important that changing some portion of the file, then saving the modified text will never change any part that the user didn't touch, as will happen if invalid sequences are rejected at input time and replaced with something else.
