From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What is a preferred charset? Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:28:03 +0100 Message-ID: <87efbdaxgs.fsf@gmx.net> References: <87zhu24h0b.fsf@gmx.net> <87r2fe4bru.fsf@gmx.net> <83o9aigj29.fsf@gnu.org> <87in0q3va0.fsf@gmx.net> <83lg5lhjby.fsf@gnu.org> <87muq1bhvv.fsf@gmx.net> <83in0pgmei.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1542904023 6504 195.159.176.226 (22 Nov 2018 16:27:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:27:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 22 17:26:59 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gProf-0001X1-8h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:26:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47580 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPrql-00040s-L0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:29:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56639) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPrpu-0003zo-0H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:28:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPrpp-0000Hc-7U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:28:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.19]:35207) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPrpo-0000Ga-US; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 11:28:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rosalinde ([178.9.97.89]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx002 [212.227.17.190]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MSdz2-1fyL6O2fie-00RciL; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:28:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83in0pgmei.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:30:29 +0200") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:5x9MbIZMMZ0a8U18rj8NE2tkEQsROugF0AD/+DaSKF3Pgd2At/o n78ElqjZ838+J4VP4jwAizvkXsFAootVgb+s5hOr1KYHPynQJk/61NXMH8Ho0DMwa+b4dpN oQKCDO8U/nk3fNJgAuTiw/e7DJXWcspnkF31Rt7ZReaJRTZ3e2KwIl5zUzYq4LBvTSoJK6I 89GqJvKF5EUUJ4aWAZ5oQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:Z3kJwcrIfUw=:z86kd4x86qzz9CX6s7FKh8 KxS3tkNL9ZdEWY4t2qbf1gYOJilbhJqVVTnHekHdJK7K+iTr+hH/+voDwW9zJmsYUGIU7A+DY J2ucWHGfGAJJARDXbkNaWNthw8PadreKUc3VRLXOTZmEws5tDpI02/8qBNZKTX6ScBxi4wf8w vPkogLY8eqqNjB8SotLSY0bUomHzd2jwRw5ZPeThASXCst7KLxZsTqoDo+Z2rKBDXSluzq1Vm dAtXSTbtfRfRgcVBl4L80ZTrwjw9sxEC91fzIGpwuuRkmpGmPzT/p6bRiYDNhocWHmYKAbTyF slB5WAUdF7qEpYirQNo4c6NR4Jx94smPfgU0HDdxFmcL2eUjPuuSnRX7CEBSyw/Sd+FYjmrZd 5X0YYcoBS99OOH6mM+zvXMc4m9iAMOSIyZn7nf5b9r0bn/WcAdWyXWszrZgexs+fIYc7HHKL3 lV8VPJXjupPqHkj3x8IzYR19jQSFwuj6t/qgOTBQupKH6FodnroQ8wfJ809Q57ox8Fal9gKpK Yc3D1tNoNRNZuDrTaY2fb9iVu2yfOzla7MGHfyouCGAP77FesydNNKz9LwZeO3TkEmhjKC5d3 EbRQ1qZXlVfQx3/4PPCz0IrnZYsy3owxEfImE/sK/c5KS9FmT0+X/7zPcVBCMtf69tvSuDLZn JoSdNR0w86QKmgiGIq+mB0mykM9s6gCwtOL5cyfZa9Af7+wLS5E/WpLs/sl5YkOUqBiihIXsH zDPx5ajZfgySkSvN77kc3FIctxjT+YUUJk9FQiKnURpIA81GGZIBg0G7LDzy+kB9RFazyHaS X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.19 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231305 Archived-At: On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:30:29 +0200 Eli Zaretskii 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