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: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:07:50 +0300 Message-ID: <83iokato6x.fsf@gnu.org> References: <54193A70.9020901@member.fsf.org> <87lhp6h4zb.fsf@panthera.terpri.org> <87k34qo4c1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <54257C22.2000806@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411744133 17849 80.91.229.3 (26 Sep 2014 15:08:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:08:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Antipov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 26 17:08:42 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 1XXX8S-0003bA-4W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:08:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49663 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XXX8R-0000lS-KW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:08:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58144) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XXX8B-0000QM-J1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:08:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XXX86-0003QA-7T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout26.012.net.il ([80.179.55.182]:60600) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XXX7u-0003Lj-10; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:08:06 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout26.012.net.il by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NCI00L00KLEX400@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:06:03 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout26.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NCI00LSRKM34J00@mtaout26.012.net.il>; Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:06:03 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <54257C22.2000806@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.182 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:174723 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:45:54 +0400 > From: Dmitry Antipov > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Why not just use ICU? Emacs needs to be able to extend the Unicode code-point space for raw 8-bit bytes and for a couple of character sets that are not unified. Can ICU support that? If not, we cannot base our implementation on ICU without a lot of redesign.