Re: [tlug] Japanese Encoding - which one?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Tobias" == Tobias Diedrich <ranma@example.com> writes:

    Tobias> Some user agents (e.g. mutt) also allow the user to
    Tobias> specify which encodings to try in what order.

Hm.  This is one case where I think that a "helpful" program actually
is a good idea.  eg:

    Tobias> Mine is set to try us-ascii first, then iso-8859-1, then
    Tobias> iso-8859-15, then iso-2022-jp and last the "fits all
    Tobias> solution" utf-8.

I think a good program should ignore the positions of us-ascii and
utf-8, and always put them first and last respectively unless the user
explicitly overrides.  Or if you had say us-ascii, utf-8, iso-2022-jp,
it should warn that iso-2022-jp is shadowed.  (I've actually been
burned by that.)


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