From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: sds@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cannot encode a buffer??
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:22:22 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8765mul7v5.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200306250752.QAA01036@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:52:34 +0900 (JST)")
>>>>> "Kenichi" == Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:
Kenichi> If you force saving them by utf-8, the encoder generates
Kenichi> a utf-8 byte sequence corresponding to U+FFFD for each of
Kenichi> them.
Isn't that a violation of the Unicode standard?
I agree that the preferences of those who would rather that Emacs keep
the different flavors of Han different should be respected. FWIW, I'd
default `utf-translate-cjk-mode' to on (to encourage development of a
Unicode-based way to disambiguate Unihan), but that does risk a lot of
annoyance for Asian polyglots.
However, if somebody insists on saving as UTF-8, the result should be
unification of Japanese to Chinese (which after all can be read, if
you can read both languages), not destruction of text. Ie, it should
not be possible for Emacs to convert any JIS X 0208 character to
U+FFFD, ever.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-25 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-24 14:52 cannot encode a buffer?? Sam Steingold
2003-06-24 16:23 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-24 19:17 ` Sam Steingold
2003-06-25 7:03 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-06-25 7:52 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-06-25 11:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2003-06-25 11:52 ` Jason Rumney
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