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From: jidanni@jidanni.org
To: jasonr@gnu.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 23:27:51 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp92mvbc.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iq3a3jb7.fsf@jidanni.org>

>>>>> "JR" == Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:

JR> In all these cases, the character set is used to select preferences
JR> for fonts, input methods and other language sensitive things, and
JR> has nothing to do with UTF-8 (which is used as a preference for file
JR> encoding when specified).

Then it is a sad choice of the name of a character set being used for
other purposes. 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?

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.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-16 15:27 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 [this message]
2010-08-16 17:41   ` Eli Zaretskii

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