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: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 49 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:53:21 +0900 (JST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200301280053.JAA15637@etlken.m17n.org> References: <200301261406.h0QE6lNi020126@stubby.bodenonline.com> <200301271321.h0RDLri30273@rum.cs.yale.edu> <8296-Mon27Jan2003205656+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> 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 1043715256 2575 80.91.224.249 (28 Jan 2003 00:54:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 00:54:16 +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 18dK11-0000fO-00 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:54:15 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18dK5S-0002jx-00 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:58:50 +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 18dK1u-00072J-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:55:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18dK11-0006LK-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:54:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18dK0Q-0005hC-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:53:39 -0500 Original-Received: from tsukuba.m17n.org ([192.47.44.130]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18dK0H-0005WF-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:53:29 -0500 Original-Received: from fs.m17n.org (fs.m17n.org [192.47.44.2])h0S0rMk29967; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:53:22 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) h0S0rLR23009; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:53:21 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id JAA15637; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:53:21 +0900 (JST) Original-To: eliz@is.elta.co.il In-reply-to: <8296-Mon27Jan2003205656+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> 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) Original-cc: jan.h.d@swipnet.se 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:11152 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11152 In article <8296-Mon27Jan2003205656+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il>, "Eli Zaretskii" writes: >> From: "Stefan Monnier" >> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:21:53 -0500 >> > >> > You can put Latin-1 characters there, but please make sure to save >> > authors.el in iso-2022-7bit encoding, and add a suitable coding: >> > cookie on its first line. >> >> I'd recommend we use utf-8 for it. It's a much more widely recognized >> standard. > I don't object, but the current practice is to use iso-2022-7bit or > emacs-mule, I think. So unless this is changed, authors.el should be > encoded as the rest of similar files. I also don't have a strong opinion, but, it seems that using utf-8 is better because it may reveal a problem of using it if any. :-) I feel that such staffs as unify-8859-on-encoding-mode must be tested more. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org