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 15:37:20 +0100 Message-ID: <17287.8608.362287.708657@parhasard.net> References: <43825633.5040403@gnu.org> <4386E41B.5020703@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 1132936085 25612 80.91.229.2 (25 Nov 2005 16:28:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:28:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jorussel@cisco.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 25 17:28:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EfgPr-0008Vy-SU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:27:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EfgPq-0002jo-Tx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:27:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Efehi-0005yV-Ow for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:37:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Efehb-0005wt-7H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:37:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Efeha-0005wm-FS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:37:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.111.49.30] (helo=icarus.conall.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EfehX-0007ni-9v; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:37:23 -0500 Original-Received: by icarus.conall.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id B1EC08008C; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:37:20 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: <4386E41B.5020703@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 17) "Jumbo Shrimp" XEmacs Lucid X-Echelon-distraction: FBI CANSLO BRLO AOL TOS Etacs GRU 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:46565 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 > Kenichi Handa wrote: >=20 > >If this situation is not good, have about this change. > > > >*************** > >*** 2129,2135 **** > > ;; That's actually what the GNU locales define, modulo things l= ike > > ;; en_IN -- fx. > > ("en_IN" "English" utf-8) ; glibc uses utf-8 for English in Ind= ia > >! ("en" . "Latin-1") ; English > > ("eo" . "Latin-3") ; Esperanto > > ("es" "Spanish" iso-8859-1) > > ("et" . "Latin-1") ; Estonian > >--- 2138,2144 ---- > > ;; That's actually what the GNU locales define, modulo things l= ike > > ;; en_IN -- fx. > > ("en_IN" "English" utf-8) ; glibc uses utf-8 for English in Ind= ia > >! ("en" "English" iso-8859-1) ; English > > ("eo" . "Latin-3") ; Esperanto > > ("es" "Spanish" iso-8859-1) > > ("et" . "Latin-1") ; Estonian > > > > =20 > > > en_GB at least needs to default to Latin-1 because of the pound sign. That=E2=80=99s a non-sequitur. en_GB environments typically have the poun= d sign available on the keyboard, and don=E2=80=99t need an input method for it. Latin-1 is a sane default for English, because of words like caf=C3=A9, f= a=C3=A7ade, na=C3=AFve that orthographically need it, even if this need has been igno= red.=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.