Reminder: Reaction to patch wanted [Bug: 21.5-b24] Problems with coding systems autodetect

[Joachim Schrod]

Joachim Schrod wrote:

Hello,

In February I posted a problem with coding auto-detection of ISO-8859-1 encoded 
files. I also devised a patch and posted it to xemacs-patches on Feb 28, after 
this email exchange:

>>     Joachim> Lutz posted a three-linee change to mule-coding.c; [...]
>>     Joachim> This change works and makes auto-detection work for all
>>     Joachim> German files that I tried.
>>
>> It will also probably break auto-detection for Shift JIS and Big5.
>>
>> On consideration, I don't see how to test that issue without, well,
>> testing it.  If you make the patch to the usual *technical* standards
>> (ie, XEmacs still builds, coding style is OK, etc), I'll apply it
>> *unless* vetoed by somebody else.  (I think that very unlikely, but it
>> would be unfair to not mention the possibility.)
>>
>> However, if it *does* break Shift JIS, Big5, or any other coding
>> system detection, I'll probably push for reverting it.

Is there any chance to get a reaction to that patch? Just dropping it to 
/dev/null is not the reaction that I expected. ;-)

If somebody would send me examples of files in Shift-JIS and Big5 encoding, I 
could do more testing myself; but as I got none, I need support here.

Cheers,
	Joachim

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