Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly

[Juri Linkov]

>> Here's another idea.  We could employ some heuristics to see if the
>> distribution of those characters seems typical for the way those
>> characters are used.  For instance, some of the punctuation characters
>
> Using such heursitics might be a good idea in general to automatically
> detect which encoding is used, or which language is used.

Unicad (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Unicad) uses statistic models
to auto-detect windows-1252 and many many other coding systems
(auto-detecting windows-1252 is not advertised on the main page,
but actually can be observed in source code).  The theory is described
at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/UniversalCharsetDetection.html
I hope sometime this will be added to Emacs.

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Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/