From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature request: multibyte user-full-name Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:46:15 +0100 Message-ID: <4417C647.9080407@swipnet.se> References: <871wx47j2v.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142408803 2938 80.91.229.2 (15 Mar 2006 07:46:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:46:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 15 08:46:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJQiK-0004p0-DN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 08:46:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJQiJ-0007Zn-9i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:46:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJQi5-0007Za-5g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:46:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJQi2-0007ZO-PZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:46:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJQi2-0007ZL-L0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:46:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.50.74.197] (helo=smtp.operax.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FJQmP-0005fY-JP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:50:49 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 71747 invoked by uid 0); 15 Mar 2006 07:46:15 -0000 Original-Received: from dentan.operax.com (HELO ?192.168.1.48?) (192.168.1.48) by treo.operax.com with SMTP; 15 Mar 2006 07:46:15 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: <871wx47j2v.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> 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:51646 Archived-At: 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.