* Has enable-multibyte-characters outlived its usefulness?
@ 2009-01-23 17:35 Chetan Pandya
2009-01-23 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Chetan Pandya @ 2009-01-23 17:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
It used to be that multibyte character support in emacs was selective and one had to enable it. Now that the support is always compiled in and setting buffer to multibyte seems to do unexpected things, if there any reason to continue with that feature?
Chetan
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* Re: Has enable-multibyte-characters outlived its usefulness?
2009-01-23 17:35 Has enable-multibyte-characters outlived its usefulness? Chetan Pandya
@ 2009-01-23 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2009-01-23 19:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pandyacus; +Cc: emacs-devel
> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:35:49 -0800 (PST)
> From: Chetan Pandya <pandyacus@sbcglobal.net>
>
> It used to be that multibyte character support in emacs was selective and one had to enable it. Now that the support is always compiled in and setting buffer to multibyte seems to do unexpected things, if there any reason to continue with that feature?
What unexpected things does it do?
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* Re: Has enable-multibyte-characters outlived its usefulness?
@ 2009-01-24 20:45 Stefan Monnier
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2009-01-24 20:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pandyacus; +Cc: emacs-devel
> It used to be that multibyte character support in emacs was selective
> and one had to enable it. Now that the support is always compiled in
> and setting buffer to multibyte seems to do unexpected things, if
> there any reason to continue with that feature?
If you really mean `enable-multibyte-characters', then it's still very
much useful and I see no reason to drop it in the foreseeable future.
If you mean default-enable-multibyte-characters, then yes it should
be dropped.
Stefan
PS: Support for multibyte has always been compiled in Emacs without any
way to "opt out", contrary to XEmacs.
`default-enable-multibyte-characters' was a way to avoid (mostly) using it
at runtime.
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