Thursday, December 10, 2020

Re: Setting file encoding in a modeline

On 10/12/2020 14.57, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> (c) If a file is read by mistake in the wrong encoding, reread it
> immediately in another (guessed) better charset. You may need to try
> several times until it looks right.

The problem is that in languages such as Italian that have only
occasional (but still frequent) non-ascii characters encoding problems
get very easily unnoticed, most files look right at first look and
sometimes even when looking specifically and carefully for encoding
problems.

It's not unlikely to discover the mistakes only much later after you
already irremediably botched the text.

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