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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Ulrich Müller" <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8?
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 22:01:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fs60hnj2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uzg48c22y@gentoo.org> (message from Ulrich Müller on Thu, 06 Jul 2023 20:44:05 +0200)

> From: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 20:44:05 +0200
> 
> --- a/lisp/language/cyrillic.el
> +++ b/lisp/language/cyrillic.el
> @@ -126,7 +126,10 @@ 'cp878
>  (define-coding-system 'koi8-u
>    "KOI8-U 8-bit encoding for Cyrillic (MIME: KOI8-U)"
>    :coding-type 'charset
> -  :mnemonic ?U
> +  ;; This used to be ?U which collided with UTF-8.  ?K is also used
> +  ;; for Korean, but it shouldn't be a real conflict since Cyrillic
> +  ;; and Hangul can be disambiguated from context.
> +  :mnemonic ?K

K is not a good idea, for 2 reasons:

  . the KOI8 family includes 3 encodings, not 1
  . U in koi8-u stands for "Ukraine", so replacing it with K will
    probably be frowned upon

How about using У instead?  (Assuming using non-ASCII works there; the
code seems to allow that.)



  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-06 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-23 11:46 Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8? Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-23 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-23 16:07   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-23 18:24     ` Paul Eggert
2020-08-23 18:53       ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-23 18:56         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-23 18:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-23 19:13           ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-23 19:42             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-23 21:23               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-24  7:06                 ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-24 14:30                   ` Yuri Khan
2020-08-29 11:17                     ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-24 14:36                   ` Drew Adams
2020-08-24 15:23                     ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-24 16:43                       ` Stefan Monnier
2023-07-05 10:08                       ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-05 11:41                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-05 13:04                           ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-05 13:44                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-05 21:50                               ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-05 22:11                                 ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-06  8:51                                   ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-06  5:33                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-06  8:47                                   ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-06  9:20                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-06  9:46                                       ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-06 12:34                                         ` Po Lu
2023-07-06 12:32                                     ` Po Lu
2023-07-06 12:31                                 ` Po Lu
2023-07-06 13:02                                   ` Andreas Schwab
2023-07-06 13:08                                   ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-06 17:37                                     ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-06 18:13                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-06 18:44                                       ` Ulrich Müller
2023-07-06 19:01                                         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-07-06 19:31                                           ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07  5:18                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-07  5:48                                               ` Ulrich Müller
2023-07-07  6:16                                                 ` Po Lu
2023-07-07  6:41                                                   ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07  7:38                                                     ` Po Lu
2023-07-07  9:44                                                       ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07 10:21                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-07 10:42                                                           ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07 12:04                                                             ` Po Lu
2023-07-07 13:01                                                               ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07 13:38                                                                 ` Po Lu
2023-07-07 12:01                                                         ` Po Lu
2023-07-07 12:38                                                           ` Andreas Schwab
2023-07-07 13:37                                                             ` Po Lu
2023-07-07 13:45                                                               ` Andreas Schwab
2023-07-07 12:58                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-08  8:49                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-08 15:27                                                   ` Basil Contovounesios
2023-07-08 15:38                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-08 16:21                                                       ` Basil Contovounesios
2023-07-08 16:33                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-08 16:57                                                           ` Basil Contovounesios
2023-07-08 18:21                                                         ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-08 21:31                                                           ` Basil Contovounesios
2023-07-09  9:22                                                       ` Lisp reader syntax and bootstrap (was: Re: Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8?) Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-09  9:57                                                         ` Lisp reader syntax and bootstrap Po Lu
2023-07-13  2:04                                                           ` Richard Stallman
2023-07-13  4:27                                                             ` Po Lu
2023-07-13 22:07                                                               ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-14  5:05                                                                 ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-14  6:57                                                                   ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-15  2:10                                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2023-07-15  2:38                                                                   ` Po Lu
2023-07-15  5:18                                                                     ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-07-15  5:50                                                                       ` Po Lu
2023-07-15 15:22                                                                   ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-17  2:22                                                                     ` Richard Stallman
2023-07-17  5:26                                                                       ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-17  2:32                                                                     ` Po Lu
2023-07-16  2:19                                                               ` Richard Stallman
2023-07-09 11:35                                                         ` Lisp reader syntax and bootstrap (was: Re: Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8?) Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-07  0:19                                     ` Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8? Po Lu
2023-07-06 12:27                             ` Po Lu
2023-07-07  7:09                               ` UTF-32 (was: Re: Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8?) Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07  7:34                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-07  8:20                                   ` UTF-32 Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07 10:16                                     ` UTF-32 Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-07 10:34                                       ` UTF-32 Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07 12:49                                         ` UTF-32 Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-07 13:24                                           ` UTF-32 Andreas Schwab
2023-07-07 13:36                                           ` UTF-32 Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07 14:06                                             ` UTF-32 Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-05 12:49                         ` Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8? Stefan Monnier
2023-07-05 13:38                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-06 19:07                           ` Filipp Gunbin
2020-08-23 19:47             ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-24 18:35     ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-24 18:55       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-25 18:59         ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-25 19:26           ` Eli Zaretskii

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