From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:24:44 +0300 Message-ID: <83d2a5maib.fsf@gnu.org> References: <54193A70.9020901@member.fsf.org> <87k34qo4c1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <54257C22.2000806@yandex.ru> <83iokato6x.fsf@gnu.org> <87wq8pwjen.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <837g0ptnlj.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3yxwdr6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tx3tmi3t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <834mvttgsf.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhp5m99w.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9ztm5oa.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87d2ahm3nw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <871tqneyvl.fsf@netris.org> <87d2a54t1m.fsf@yeeloong.lan> <83lhotme1e.fsf@gnu.org> <87fvf1dxha.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1412612706 14254 80.91.229.3 (6 Oct 2014 16:25:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 16:25:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, mhw@netris.org, dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, stephen@xemacs.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 06 18:24:56 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XbB5j-0006Sl-61 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:24:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52946 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbB5i-00045t-Ju for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:24:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47783) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbB5b-00045l-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:24:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbB5W-0001Yp-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:24:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:64376) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XbB5R-0001WB-Ci; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:24:37 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0ND100L006OOCN00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:24:36 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0ND100LP16WZ9570@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Mon, 06 Oct 2014 19:24:36 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87fvf1dxha.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175020 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Cc: Mark H Weaver , rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@gnu.org, stephen@xemacs.org > Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 17:33:21 +0200 > > If an overlong UTF-8 byte sequence representing '"' is processed > transparently by Emacs, it will be reencoded into the original > afterwards and depending on the next processing stage might trip up > software afterwards. Indeed. But that's what is expected from an editor: not to change the stuff the user didn't touch. > Of course, it would have done equally so without Emacs (or GUILE) in > the middle. Right. > The solution obviously is to use a coding scheme for recoding that > does _not_ reproduce unencodable bytes. An editor such as Emacs cannot do that, I think.