From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: iso-8859-1 and non-latin-1 chars Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:01:10 +0900 (JST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200301071301.WAA29515@etlken.m17n.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041970407 9621 80.91.224.249 (7 Jan 2003 20:13:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 20:13:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18W06I-0002Uw-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 21:13:26 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18W0B0-0002oK-00 for ; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 21:18:18 +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 18Vz3B-00031F-03 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 14:06:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18VtO0-0006wf-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 08:03:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18VtM9-0004Zh-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 08:03:15 -0500 Original-Received: from tsukuba.m17n.org ([192.47.44.130]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18VtM8-0004Z8-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 08:01:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fs.m17n.org (fs.m17n.org [192.47.44.2])h07D1Bk07396; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:01:11 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) h07D1BR10686; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:01:11 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id WAA29515; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:01:10 +0900 (JST) Original-To: d.love@dl.ac.uk In-reply-to: (message from Dave Love on 06 Jan 2003 19:18:29 +0000) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.2.92 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) 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:10535 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10535 In article , Dave Love writes: > Kenichi Handa writes: >> > No, it should use a general coding system to store all >> > text. >> >> If that is possible (i.e. users allows that), yes. > They should not change it, but... (BBDB originally had no encoding > support, and some people took part of my advice to add .bbdb to > `file-coding-system-alist', but chose to ignore the actual coding > system :-(.) >> But, why calling select-safe-coding-system is not good? > It's not relevant. You need to be able to store all text in the file, > not just Latin-1 names, for instance. It's the same issue as for > auto-save files &c. In that case, anyway using latin-1 is not appropriate. Instead of enabling latin-1 to save all characters, bbdb should be modified to use a better coding system. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org