From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Coding systems vietnamese-vscii and vietnamese-tcvn
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:34:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zg3pzbm6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u5y6djyk5@gentoo.org> (message from Ulrich Mueller on Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:26:02 +0200)
> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:26:02 +0200
>
> language/vietnamese.el defines coding systems vietnamese-vscii
> (with charset vscii) and vietnamese-tcvn (with charset tcvn-5712).
> However, mule-conf.el defines the two charsets as aliases [1]:
>
> (define-charset-alias 'tcvn-5712 'vscii)
>
> Indeed, a file containing bytes 0x00 to 0xff decodes to the same buffer
> contents, regardless if its coding is specified as vscii or as tcvn.
>
> Wikipedia also seems to say that these are only different names for
> the same encoding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSCII
>
> Should coding system vietnamese-tcvn be an alias for vietnamese-vscii
> (or the other way around)?
Why is the fact that we have two separate coding systems a problem in
this case?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-21 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-21 11:26 Coding systems vietnamese-vscii and vietnamese-tcvn Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-21 12:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-07-21 12:52 ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-21 13:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-28 18:03 ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-28 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-29 5:19 ` Ulrich Müller
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