From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: handa@gnu.org (K. Handa)
Cc: 16007@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16007: admin/charsets/mule-charsets.el requires old Emacs version
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:40:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d2l4y57t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2l56i6c.fsf@gnu.org>
> From: handa@gnu.org (K. Handa)
> Cc: rgm@gnu.org, 16007@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 20:48:11 +0900
>
> > > > Is the effort of making it work with MULE-is13194.map is
> > > > so significant?
> > >
> > > ??? I'm saying that such an effort is useless. If someone
> > > want to generate those maps, he/she should use Emacs 22.
>
> > I don't understand: are you saying that these maps are not used at all
> > in Emacs 23 and later? In that case, we should simply delete them
> > from the repository.
>
> They are surely used as well as the other maps
> (e.g. Uni2JIS) which can never be re-generated if the source
> internet sites are gone.
>
> > But if these files _are_ used by latest Emacsen, then having to look
> > for an old Emacs 22 binary in order to produce them is a nuisance.
> > E.g., imagine that the maps have been lost for some reason (like some
> > disaster on Savannah), and need to be regenerated.
>
> I think it is a nuisance to prepare for such a disaster.
> But, if we are going to do that, as such a disaster will
> happen on any other internet sites, we should have a program
> to re-generate all charsets (and perhaps all uni-*.el).
I see.
What about the problem with indian-is13194 in list-charset-chars --
what is needed to fix that one?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-10 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-30 1:54 bug#16007: admin/charsets/mule-charsets.el requires old Emacs version Glenn Morris
2013-11-30 10:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-30 18:16 ` Glenn Morris
2013-11-30 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-02 14:29 ` Kenichi Handa
2013-12-02 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-03 14:50 ` Kenichi Handa
2013-12-03 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-10 11:48 ` K. Handa
2013-12-10 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-12-11 9:30 ` K. Handa
2013-12-11 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-23 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-24 15:00 ` K. Handa
2013-12-24 17:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-31 15:13 ` Kenichi Handa
2013-12-31 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-01 14:28 ` Kenichi Handa
2014-01-01 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-02 1:49 ` Kenichi Handa
2014-01-02 3:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-07 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
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