From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: utf-16le vs utf-16-le Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:22:15 +0900 Message-ID: <87bq4cezm0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87wsn1fl72.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87prssgacl.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <851w58q24a.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87lk3gfg40.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fxtof8x1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208218397 17270 80.91.229.12 (15 Apr 2008 00:13:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:13:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andreas Schwab Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 15 02:13:48 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JlYnW-0004sb-Gl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:13:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JlYms-0002f2-32 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:12:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlYmh-0002Vb-R2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:12:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JlYmg-0002So-8m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:12:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JlYmf-0002SU-UV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:12:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JlYmb-0000vs-Rm; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:12:22 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D4D1535AC; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:12:18 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E71621A29F3; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:22:15 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 2785829fe37c XEmacs Lucid X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:95228 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab writes: > The whole point of en/decoding is to convert between internal and > external representation, no matter whether operating on a buffer or a > string. Actually, that's an implementation detail. I'm suggesting that the world might be a better place if we decomposed the common transformations we make in a different way.