From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: character sets as they relate to =?utf-8?B?4oCcUmF34oCd?= string literals for elisp Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2021 09:18:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83ee8uyb3w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83sfxd1g05.fsf@gnu.org> <83tuhtyn46.fsf@gnu.org> <83o880zuxs.fsf@gnu.org> <838rz4ypkt.fsf@gnu.org> <83k0inxvjf.fsf@gnu.org> <83ily7xsjw.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40681"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, db48x@db48x.net, stefankangas@gmail.com, juri@linkov.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 09 08:19:58 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mZ5i9-000ALx-IR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 08:19:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45908 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZ5i7-0001wh-Rj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 02:19:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZ5hO-0001Hp-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 02:19:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:47752) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZ5hM-0001ic-Ne; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 02:19:08 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1390 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZ5hG-0002UB-JW; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 02:19:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Alan Mackenzie on Fri, 8 Oct 2021 20:01:15 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:276589 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 20:01:15 +0000 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, juri@linkov.net, db48x@db48x.net, > stefankangas@gmail.com, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca > From: Alan Mackenzie > > > And, of course, if you must have only ASCII characters in the Info > > files themselves, you can always regenerate them from the sources, > > without using the --enable-encoding switch. It's so simple that it's > > hardly worth another round of futile "discussions" that never go > > anywhere. > > That's not what I want. I want UTF-8 characters, so that people's names, > etc., can be displayed correctly. I simply don't want the PUNCTUATION in > texi files to get translated to Unicode characters not on my keyboard, > and which can't be cleanly displayed on my Linux console. makeinfo and > friends don't have options for this. But Emacs already automatically translates those punctuation characters at display time in your case, so what exactly is the problem you want to solve?