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: unibyte<->multibyte conversion [Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 28] Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:18:44 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200301231618.h0NGIjl07262@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <3405-Sat18Jan2003154003+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <200301200229.LAA16287@etlken.m17n.org> <6480-Mon20Jan2003214849+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <200301202055.h0KKtun11691@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200301221412.h0MECoA01024@rum.cs.yale.edu> <8011-Wed22Jan2003210918+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043339184 17202 80.91.224.249 (23 Jan 2003 16:26:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:26:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18bkBJ-0004TG-00 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:26:21 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18bkDe-0000WE-00 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:28:46 +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 18bk4K-0004Sq-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:19:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bk41-0004Rf-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:18:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bk3y-0004RD-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:18:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18bk3y-0004R7-00; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:18:46 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h0NGIjl07262; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:18:45 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: Richard Stallman Original-cc: Eli Zaretskii 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:11004 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11004 > By constrast, encode-coding-* and decode-coding-* are very > straightforward. > These functions, per se, are straightforward--but would the difference > between the various proposed coding systems be equally > straightforward? I think people understand the difference between binary, emacs-mule, and locale-coding-system. Probably not everybody does, but those who don't, *really* can't understand string-FOO-multibyte either and should thus stay away from it. Stefan