From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: One example of code I can't understand Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:50:08 +0200 Message-ID: <877hy3w03j.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248123038 5134 80.91.229.12 (20 Jul 2009 20:50:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:50:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17204@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jul 20 22:50:31 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MSzoa-0001Jk-SJ for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:50:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MSzoT-0004KX-KO; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:50:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1MSzoS-0004K9-1i for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:50:20 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MSzoO-0005ua-Po for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:50:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1MSzow-0002Lf-00 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:50:50 +0200 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.10.175]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n6KKoC4k019895; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:50:12 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53A61CE23; Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:50:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Face: #vK]N[`vqjuod*|)'[iD7/"3AB-ApT%fmN"LWAg@oS7OesGv~)n[OBTLM#I="J'Y^-7I I/ps7o_'IK@#-Rs{::DZ@O8yS|fexe,XslY[:dNWOb~>?mC-&i_c)say:"\IpA.5U.b]'NY;Pks{lb h.+#6%DpZuaK3dcHB`Av3zc:r!C%~s0&m,tWj]&},qg.+0ww2gK%f!:GK|wMl.I!(voY*1"^li8"~B BNG)9LvPi?^DMR-GVDnZqhu*3Hi,+g=wFhI)BL6&u{EOVEHjVEVq~d?_}lMntWAc3(6?kftjc>_f>! g0wM(qPM$d5]^TT_Qyi&L?LGVG)SHN;Gk/,pkY9,~ Mail-Followup-To: Stefan Monnier , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:13:59 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-Misty-Metrics: poseidon 1170; Body=4 Fuz1=4 Fuz2=4 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68783 gmane.emacs.devel:112864 Archived-At: On Mon, Jul 20 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote: > In Emacs-23 it doesn't make much sense (because unification, OFFSET is > always 0). It's used in mm-find-mime-charset-region (via > mm-iso-8859-x-to-15-region) to provide a "poor man's unification": [...] > Now that we have utf-8, this is unnecessary since we can always encode > the whole text with just a single coding-system, without having to break > it down into chunks. Please keep in mind that Gnus wants to support older Emacs versions and XEmacs, see (info "(gnus)Emacsen"). So please don't remove this code. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/