From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: 6866@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:41:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eidysbdz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bp92mvbc.fsf@jidanni.org>
> From: jidanni@jidanni.org
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:27:51 +0800
> Cc: 6866@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Many users will say: didn't I make a big effort years ago to totally
> convert my environment? Why do I still have traces of big5 hanging
> around?
Users should not look into the code unless they actually read it (as
opposed to grep them with some random string) and understand what the
code does.
> Perhaps there should be a more neutral name used. Since it seems what
> you are calling Chinese-Big5 does not have much to do with
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese#Computer_encoding
> after all.
It _is_ a name of an encoding, just the Emacs name. It just isn't
used in the way you thought.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-16 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-16 11:09 bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8 jidanni
2010-08-16 12:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-16 12:23 ` Jason Rumney
2010-08-16 12:58 ` jidanni
2010-08-16 13:17 ` Jason Rumney
2010-08-16 13:39 ` jidanni
2010-08-16 14:07 ` Jason Rumney
2010-08-16 16:26 ` Werner LEMBERG
2010-08-16 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-16 15:27 ` jidanni
2010-08-16 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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