From: Kenichi Handa <handa@etl.go.jp>
Cc: kazu@iijlab.net, mew-int@mew.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [mew-int 00737] Re: (no subject)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:10:20 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200202250710.QAA01605@etlken.m17n.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:55:36 +0200 (IST)
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> Handa-san, it sounds like the new encoding with ICCM Extended Segments
> support should not be called ctext, because ctext is used in file I/O, at
> least by Mew. It sounds like we should leave ctext as it was working
> before, including the fact that it didn't support the ICCCM Extended
> Segments, and use another name (e.g., compound-text-with-extensions) for
> the new coding system. We will then have to make that new coding system
> be the default for X selections in CVS head.
> Do you agree?
>> So, to my best knowledge, ctext is only the character set which can
>> survive in the old Emacs world and the multilingual Emacs world.
> It was IMHO an unfortunate decision to use ctext for file I/O, since
> ctext must support the ICCCM spec which is inappropriate for encoding
> anything but X selections. However, given that Mew uses that for quite
> some time, Emacs shouldn't break it, I think.
Considering this situation, I agree with the name change.
---
Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@etl.go.jp
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2002-02-25 7:10 Kenichi Handa [this message]
2002-02-26 16:52 ` [mew-int 00737] Re: (no subject) Eli Zaretskii
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2002-02-23 16:11 ctext-pre-write-conversion barfs Tak Ota
2002-02-23 18:51 ` (no subject) Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-23 23:11 ` Tak Ota
2002-02-25 1:11 ` [mew-int 00737] " Kazu Yamamoto
2002-02-25 6:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
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