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: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 21:47:15 +0300 Message-ID: <83ily7xsjw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877der8smr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83y2772y0s.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfxd1g05.fsf@gnu.org> <83tuhtyn46.fsf@gnu.org> <83o880zuxs.fsf@gnu.org> <838rz4ypkt.fsf@gnu.org> <83k0inxvjf.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="12757"; 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: acm@muc.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 08 20:48:45 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 1mYuvF-00039H-86 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2021 20:48:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33456 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYuvD-0000Sc-Cc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:48:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45842) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYuuI-0008D4-7G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:47:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:51578) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYuuE-0006n1-Sy; Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2967 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 1mYuu8-0007rG-Eg; Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:47:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83k0inxvjf.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 08 Oct 2021 20:42:44 +0300) 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:276577 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 20:42:44 +0300 > From: Eli Zaretskii > 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 > > > Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 17:17:36 +0000 > > Cc: Stefan Kangas , rms@gnu.org, > > yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, juri@linkov.net, db48x@db48x.net, > > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > From: Alan Mackenzie > > > > I would suggest something slightly different which will solve the entire > > problem rather than just part of it. Have the minor mode translate the > > buffer text (temporarily) into ASCII rather than just displaying it thus. > > That way the user can search for `foo' or ... simply by using C-s. > > Modifying the text of an Info manual is a bad idea for the reasons I > explained in an earlier message. 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.