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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is a preferred charset?
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:28:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efbdaxgs.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83in0pgmei.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:30:29 +0200")

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:30:29 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> In any case, it's ok with me to drop this now, since it's
>> become clear to me that "preferred charset" is not a technical term but
>> a term of convenience used only by describe-char, and it hasn't bothered
>> anyone till now (and I hadn't thought about it till now either).  Thanks
>> for the feedback.
>
> Thanks for pointing out how this display might be confusing; I have
> now removed the "preferred" part from the display, and added
> descriptions of how each attribute of the character is obtained, so
> that interested users could drill down.

Thanks, that's an improvement.  And thanks for clarifying the issue for
me.

Steve Berman



  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-22 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-21 14:55 What is a preferred charset? Stephen Berman
2018-11-21 15:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-11-21 15:40   ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-21 16:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-21 16:48   ` Stephen Berman
2018-11-21 22:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-21 22:44       ` Stephen Berman
2018-11-22  3:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-22  9:07           ` Stephen Berman
2018-11-22 15:30             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-22 16:28               ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2018-11-21 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii

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