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: iso-8859-1 and non-latin-1 chars Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:06:19 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200212161406.gBGE6KM30409@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040047687 25000 80.91.224.249 (16 Dec 2002 14:08:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:08:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kenichi Handa Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Nvue-0006Up-00 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:08:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18Nw89-0002cK-00 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:22:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Nvud-0005KQ-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:08:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Nvu1-000554-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:07:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Nvtn-0004xS-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:07:12 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Nvt2-0004iT-00; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:06:24 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gBGE6KM30409; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 09:06:20 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Dave Love Original-cc: rms@gnu.org Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10160 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10160 > > So, my conclusion was that writing out those escape > > sequences not only violates the commonly accepted concept > > about a coding system, > What concept do you mean, exactly? One of the problems is that before the recent change, iso-latin-1 was sometimes outputting non-latin-1 characters (i.e. bytes between 128 and 160). That breaks ispell and can break other programs as well. Stefan