From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MML charset tag regression Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 13:55:55 +0300 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <7263-Fri06Jun2003135554+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <0F223D16-8C72-11D7-8F50-00039363E640@swipnet.se> <2950-Sun25May2003202510+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <5567-Sun01Jun2003184053+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054896899 18039 80.91.224.249 (6 Jun 2003 10:54:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:54:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, jas@extundo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1583@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jun 06 12:54:57 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19OEs5-0004gP-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 12:54:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19OEuG-0003bd-00; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 05:57:12 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19OEu9-0003bX-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 05:57:05 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 39254 invoked by alias); 6 Jun 2003 10:57:04 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 39249 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2003 10:57:04 -0000 Original-Received: from aragorn.inter.net.il (192.114.186.23) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 6 Jun 2003 10:57:04 -0000 Original-Received: from zaretsky (cable-129-113.inter.net.il [213.8.129.113]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.5-GR) with ESMTP id AUS23076; Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:55:18 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: d.love@dl.ac.uk X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: (message from Dave Love on Wed, 04 Jun 2003 23:04:10 +0100) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53039 gmane.emacs.devel:14819 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14819 > From: Dave Love > Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 23:04:10 +0100 > > "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > > > It was intended to explain why the code was built on top of the > > existing ctext en/decoder. > > But that's not at issue. In that case, how about making a point of explaining what's at issue in a manner that will make it clear to us mere mortals? Please don't assume that everybody else can guess what you regard as being ``at issue'' from a short sentence that disguises more than it reveals. > > I'm sorry it wasn't helpful, but given the attitude, perhaps I > > shouldn't be surprised. > > The only attitude involved is trying to do as well as possible for > multilingual support in fairly trying circumstances. If that was supposed to be an apology (as in ``sorry, I was misunderstood''), then I accept it. [The facts remain that there isn't a piece of Mule-related code in Emacs I've written during the last few years that was not attacked by you at some point. "Carthaginem esse delendam" is an attitude that comes to mind.]