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 rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:05:06 +0300 Message-ID: <83h9lq6bpp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhb82qxc.fsf@gmail.com> <87oag4jk74.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k2qrki45.fsf@wanadoo.es> <8737xf9je9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87pp0fm0j3.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3kusx8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lhb26eb9.fsf@gnu.org> <87io66suhx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445011550 10779 80.91.229.3 (16 Oct 2015 16:05:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:05:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ludo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 16 18:05:35 2015 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 1Zn7VS-0003Qr-Nk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 18:05:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54753 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn7VS-0003TZ-4B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:05:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37008) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn7VM-0003QM-Cb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn7VI-0004rD-Ed for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:64299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn7VB-0004kI-AC; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:05:05 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NWB00500LRGB800@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:05:04 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NWB0052FM0F2Z90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:05:04 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87io66suhx.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:191774 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Cc: ludo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:28:26 +0200 > > >> What about libiconv? It would appear that parts of it are in the GUILE > >> source tree (admittedly, under GNU control). > > > > libunistring calls libiconv. > > Optionally. And GUILE includes parts of libiconv and calls them itself. Yes, that's true. > I'm just pointing out that this is quite nontrivial to bring up to Emacs > standards in string processing because so many dependencies are > involved, most of them having a rather simplistic view of invalid or > overlong byte sequences and characters outside of the Unicode range. > > They don't allow as many character codes as Emacs needs to represent its > various inputs. I agree.