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: windows-1251 language environment Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:51:09 +0900 (JST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200310280851.RAA05966@etlken.m17n.org> References: <200310032356.54476.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <200310060013.52049.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <200310070254.LAA11795@etlken.m17n.org> <200310081040.TAA15162@etlken.m17n.org> <200310132350.IAA23839@etlken.m17n.org> <200310151344.WAA26445@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1067331348 23069 80.91.224.253 (28 Oct 2003 08:55:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 08:55:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pogonyshev@gmx.net, jasonr@f2s.com, d.love@dl.ac.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 28 09:55:43 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEPdf-0003Cs-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:55:43 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AEPde-0002Ij-01 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:55:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEPZz-0001Yu-8G for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 03:51:55 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEPZu-0001YJ-J5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 03:51:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AEPZL-0001MT-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 03:51:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.47.44.130] (helo=tsukuba.m17n.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AEPZK-0001M8-W6; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 03:51:15 -0500 Original-Received: from fs.m17n.org (fs.m17n.org [192.47.44.2]) by tsukuba.m17n.org (8.11.6p2/3.7W-20010518204228) with ESMTP id h9S8pBh00111; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:51:11 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from etlken.m17n.org (etlken.m17n.org [192.47.44.125]) by fs.m17n.org (8.11.6/3.7W-20010823150639) with ESMTP id h9S8p9s11717; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:51:09 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from handa@localhost) by etlken.m17n.org (8.8.8+Sun/3.7W-2001040620) id RAA05966; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:51:09 +0900 (JST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:06:08 -0400) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.3 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17496 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17496 Richard Stallman writes: > Currently, a user must define his own language environment > from scratch. But, usually what they want is to prefer the > diffent default input method, prefer the different coding > system than the existing one. > Other people pointed out that it's easy to do this by first specifying > the standard language environment, and second overriding other > specific data. > A customization UI could generate the Lisp code in .emacs to specify > the information in exactly that way. That makes the UI code unnecessarily complicated. In addition, in that way, C-h L (describe-language-environment) doesn't work. I think it is simpler to make the UI allows a user to customize the variable `language-info-alist' by modifying the existing slot or by adding a new slot to language-info-alist. --- Ken'ichi HANDA handa@m17n.org