From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: multibyte user-full-name
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:46:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4417C647.9080407@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871wx47j2v.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I think it's pretty likely that people who start *now* to added non-ASCII
> chars in Gecos fields do it with utf-8. As for those who've been doing it
> for a while already with something else than utf-8: well, Emacs-21 read that
> as unibyte and it was good enough that (almost) nobody complained, so
> why change?
I've had non-ASCII (ISO-8859-1 actually) characters in my gecos field for at
least 10 years, but then again, I'm used to programs not working with anything
but ASCII, so I haven't complained :-)
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-15 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-12 7:35 Feature request: multibyte user-full-name AIDA Shinra
2006-03-14 1:48 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-03-14 3:18 ` AIDA Shinra
2006-03-14 4:54 ` Zhang Wei
2006-03-14 6:22 ` Miles Bader
2006-03-14 5:44 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-03-14 16:17 ` AIDA Shinra
2006-03-14 16:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-20 4:47 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-03-14 22:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-15 7:46 ` Jan D. [this message]
2006-03-19 6:12 ` AIDA Shinra
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