From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: format.el Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 20:55:33 +0300 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <1659-Sat06Apr2002205533+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: <200204061732.g36HWmw19629@aztec.santafe.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018116195 14982 127.0.0.1 (6 Apr 2002 18:03:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 18:03:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: handa@etl.go.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org, gerd@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16tuWx-0003tX-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 20:03:15 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16tukW-0003e9-00 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 20:17:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tuWl-00032V-00; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 13:03:03 -0500 Original-Received: from odin.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.10]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16tuTo-0002oR-00; Sat, 06 Apr 2002 13:00:00 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretsky (diup-217-89.inter.net.il [213.8.217.89]) by odin.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 2.9.3.2) with ESMTP id AAQ87865; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 20:59:54 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.2.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-Reply-To: <200204061732.g36HWmw19629@aztec.santafe.edu> (message from Richard Stallman on Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:32:48 -0700 (MST)) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2423 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2423 > Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 10:32:48 -0700 (MST) > From: Richard Stallman > > format.el defines conversions for some international text representations > that are implented by running recode. Also two that use iso-german > and iso-spanish. > > Are these features still useful, or have they been obsoleted > by Mule facilities? Can we delete some of this as obsolete? AFAICS, the conversions that use `recode' can be rewritten to use Emacs facilities based on Mule. However, someone will have to write more-or-less trivial wrappers for encode-coding-region and friends, since we don't currently support encoding with names `ibm-pc', `roman8', and iso646-ge. As for iso-german and iso-spanish, they are imlpemented in iso-cvt.el. I don't know what are the target encodings of those two, so I cannot say whether Mule supports that. Anybody?