From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unify on encoding Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 07:23:45 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200203201223.g2KCNjP11154@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016676064 28136 127.0.0.1 (21 Mar 2002 02:01:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 02:01:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jason Rumney , Richard Stallman , monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16nrt2-0007Jh-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 03:01:04 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16nrz3-0002u6-00 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 03:07:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16npZx-0002t3-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:33:13 -0500 Original-Received: from delysid.gnu.org ([158.121.106.20]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16nobK-000118-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:30:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by delysid.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #2) id 16nfAj-0004LK-00; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 07:26:29 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2KCNjP11154; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 07:23:45 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2075 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2075 > > On 19 Mar 2002, Jason Rumney wrote: > > > The escape route would be to select an iso2022 or emacs-mule coding > > system from the expanded list offered. Or do those get unified as well? > > I don't know; I didn't yet have time to try this mode. Perhaps Stefan > can answer that. > > In general, iso-2022 tags each charset with a special escape sequence, so > at least in principle, you could have, say, latin-2 characters retagged > as latin-1 there. But I don't know if that actually happens. No, as I said, any char that can be encoded by a coding-system will be encoded just as it was before. The only difference is now some coding systems can encode more chars than before. Stefan _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel