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evaluating (require 'un-define) (set-coding-priority-list '(utf-8)) (set-coding-category-system 'utf-8 'utf-8) in the scratch buffer before opening the UTF-8 document was sufficient. RAW documents remained RAW, afaik.

since the upgrade to lucid lynx, my computer throws "cal: option requires an argument -- 'm'" at me when I invoke "cal -m" to specify I'd love to have the week starting on monday. ""Proper" honoring of LC_TIME mixing it with command line options" says the changelog. I spot that those LC_* settings are actually pointing the library towards a data chunk located in /usr/lib/locale/<language setting, e.g. en_DK.utf8>/<subset, e.g. LC_TIME, LC_MONETARY, etc.>

You mean it's called "ISO-8859-1" in java.nio and "ISO8859_1" in java.io !? Wtf!?

If you ever see '\n' in a UTF-8 stream. It's '\n'. Never the start nor the middle of a longer unicode character.

#65533 is "invalid encoding". That's how you'll read any byte with its 8th bit set if you use InputStreamReader(x,'US-ASCII'), for instance.

could be handy ^_^

quelques symboles unicode bien pratiques ^_^ ♥ ♫♫♪ ♬

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