From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: etc/HELLO markup etc. Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 17:29:19 +0200 Message-ID: <83zhsdztww.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pnta56td.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1546788498 28083 195.159.176.226 (6 Jan 2019 15:28:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2019 15:28:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 06 16:28:14 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ggALR-00076z-3z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 16:28:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58380 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggANX-0007mq-KC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 10:30:19 -0500 Original-Received: from eggsout.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43837 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggAMt-0007mX-CV for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 10:29:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggAMs-0004Ee-MB for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 10:29:39 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38130) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggAMp-0004Ct-2C; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 10:29:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3031 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ggAMo-0001ZU-M6; Sun, 06 Jan 2019 10:29:35 -0500 In-reply-to: <87pnta56td.fsf@gnu.org> (message from handa on Sun, 06 Jan 2019 21:06:22 +0900) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232210 Archived-At: > From: handa > Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 21:06:22 +0900 > > In article <83lg486awy.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > What about using the charset information in general for font > > selection? Do you think this is a valuable feature, or was it again > > designed only due to the issues you mention above with fonts designed > > for legacy charsets? > > The latter. As an Open Type font has shaping rules for script and/or > language, script and language information is more useful than charset. Thanks. I guess we can remove most of charset markup from HELLO, leaving only one or two as an example of the facility.