From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: display.texi: (,) isn't documented. Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:26:22 +0000 Message-ID: <20070608082622.GC12466@www.trapp.net> References: <20070605231947.GA2058@muc.de> <20070607082335.GB7218@www.trapp.net> <20070607172501.GC1710@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181291700 19085 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2007 08:35:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:35:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 08 10:34:59 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HwZvu-0004Mc-NP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:34:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwZvu-0000IM-6n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:34:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwZvr-0000IH-8i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:34:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HwZvp-0000I5-RS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:34:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwZvp-0000I2-N0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:34:53 -0400 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104] helo=www.elogos.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HwZvp-0005bz-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:34:53 -0400 Original-Received: from www.elogos.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.elogos.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E22E4B5AF; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:26:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 4000) id 3A38B4B5B2; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:26:22 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070607172501.GC1710@muc.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:72472 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:25:01PM +0100, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > 'n Tag, Tomas! Tagchen! > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:23:35AM +0000, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 12:19:47AM +0100, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > One definitive disadvantage of the "Lnnn Cnnn" format [...] > > is that they are not very internatinalization-friendly > I don't agree. I think that the "L" and the "C" aren't really understo= od > as letters: they're kind of uninterpreted symbols. Makes sense. My argument was "all other things being equal, prefer language-agnostic constructs". But other things ain't equal. The alternatives proposed so far all have their own disadvantages. [...] > That I want Emacs optimised for left-to-right European languages and > culture. ;-) [...] > We shouldn't try > to find a compromise solution which would satisfy nobody. Fair enough Thanks - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGaRKuBcgs9XrR2kYRApqtAJ0T5g1JbPjjHWt8csT3kT0uQZ6/+QCfTG+a BuhQkX2OPC0FILMJl5tU2BI=3D =3Db/gs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----