From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cyrillic vs UTF-8 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:42:27 +0900 Organization: The XEmacs Project Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87llxszjd8.fsf@tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <1858-Fri25Apr2003194023+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <200304282149.h3SLnxSU002624@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200304291349.h3TDnKVt005184@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051678009 29610 80.91.224.249 (30 Apr 2003 04:46:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 04:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 30 06:46:48 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19AjUW-0007hS-00 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:46:48 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19AjdU-0001li-00 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 06:56:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AjVE-0006PT-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:47:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AjUk-0005hw-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:47:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AjS8-00008j-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:44:21 -0400 Original-Received: from tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.98.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AjRH-0007iE-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:43:27 -0400 Original-Received: from steve by tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 19AjQJ-0007VS-00; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:42:27 +0900 Original-To: Simon Josefsson In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:27:59 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) XEmacs/21.5 (cabbage) Original-cc: Eli Zaretskii Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13564 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13564 >>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson writes: Simon> I agree it would be useful to be able to configure Simon> different loading and saving time preferences. Then I Simon> would be able to specify that emacs should try to save data Simon> as ascii first, then latin-1, then latin-9 and then UTF-8, Simon> then give up and ask. On loading, I'd want it to try Simon> latin-9 instead of latin-1 though. In non-UTF-8 locales, I Simon> think this behaviour is what many europeans would want. latin-unity provides this (but basically only for Latin scripts). I don't think it works under GNU Emacs, and it's pretty crufty, but it's all my code and is assigned to the FSF. So if somebody wants to port/ improve, I'll be happy to answer questions. NB: probably requires Mule-UCS, although I imagine emacs-unicode has the necessary facilities to build tables. cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.xemacs.org:/pack/xemacscvs checkout latin-unity (password is either null or "cvs", I forget). -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.