From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aidan Kehoe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FW: Emacs non-ascii characters Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:49:12 +0100 Message-ID: <17287.38120.444351.439338@parhasard.net> References: <43825633.5040403@gnu.org> <4386E41B.5020703@gnu.org> <17287.8608.362287.708657@parhasard.net> <43872508.6060502@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132959021 25556 80.91.229.2 (25 Nov 2005 22:50:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 22:50:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jorussel@cisco.com, Kenichi Handa , drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 25 23:50:17 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EfmO7-0005ry-3J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 23:49:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EfmO5-0006zE-Ko for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:49:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EfmNm-0006yU-L6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:49:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EfmNk-0006x4-O8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:49:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EfmNk-0006wV-AP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:49:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.111.49.30] (helo=icarus.conall.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EfmNX-0005bf-8M; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:49:16 -0500 Original-Received: by icarus.conall.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 900CD8008D; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 22:49:12 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: <43872508.6060502@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 17) "Jumbo Shrimp" XEmacs Lucid X-Echelon-distraction: SEAL Team 3 burned Quadaffi Sphinx Indigo NRO X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:46588 Archived-At: Ar an c=C3=BAigi=C3=BA l=C3=A1 is fiche de m=C3=AD na Samhain, scr=C3=AD= obh Jason Rumney:=20 > > > en_GB at least needs to default to Latin-1 because of the pound si= gn. > > > >That=E2=80=99s a non-sequitur. en_GB environments typically have the = pound sign > >available on the keyboard, and don=E2=80=99t need an input method for= it. > > Right, but the variable in question sets up a Language Environment,=20 > which is a lot more than just input-method. Yeah, but the =E2=80=9Clot more=E2=80=9D doesn=E2=80=99t matter for en_GB= English versus US English. If a character isn=E2=80=99t in US-ASCII, the =E2=80=9CEnglish=E2=80=9D e= nvironment goes for ISO 8859-1, which eliminates any incompatibilities with the Latin-1 environme= nt, _except for_ the input method.=20 --=20 I AM IN JAIL AND ALLOWED SEND ONLY ONE CABLE SINCE WAS ARRESTED WHILE MEASURING FIFTEEN FOOT WALL OUTSIDE PALACE AND HAVE JUST FINISHED COUNTIN= G THIRTY EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDERED TWENTY TWO NAMES WHOS WHO IN MIDEAST.