From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature request: multibyte user-full-name Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:36:44 -0500 Message-ID: <871wx47j2v.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142375833 6104 80.91.229.2 (14 Mar 2006 22:37:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:37:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 14 23:37:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJI8T-0006zk-An for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:37:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJI8S-00075g-SZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:37:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJI8H-00072c-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:36:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJI8E-000717-Bo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:36:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJI8E-000714-7x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:36:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.110] (helo=tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FJICW-0005Vk-3g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:41:12 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([67.71.115.9]) by tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060314223645.VHLW4713.tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:36:45 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0483AD73A1; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:36:44 -0500 (EST) Original-To: AIDA Shinra In-Reply-To: (AIDA Shinra's message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:18:14 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51632 Archived-At: > A site administrator might choose an encoding other than UTF-8 even if > it is locale-dependent... Nice theory. Give the growing popularity of utf-8, I think we shouldn't even try locale-coding-system (which risks false-positives). Better try just utf-8 and if that fails, fall back on unibyte. I think it's pretty likely that people who start *now* to added non-ASCII chars in Gecos fields do it with utf-8. As for those who've been doing it for a while already with something else than utf-8: well, Emacs-21 read that as unibyte and it was good enough that (almost) nobody complained, so why change? Stefan