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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: utf-16le vs utf-16-le
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:23:37 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87myntp3k6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85hce1a6d0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup writes:
 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:

 > > We're not talking about GNU Emacs 23, we're talking about what should
 > > be.  What I'm trying to say is that all of these variants are
 > > occasionally useful, and they can be decomposed as text coding +
 > > signature + EOL convention, rather than having a zillion variants with
 > > weird names for the user to keep track of.
 > 
 > Well, the solution is then systematic names...

Well, not entirely.  As Eli points out, many of the names won't be
bound to appropriate coding systems as things stand, because they
don't exist.

I also find it faintly unclean when the system has to go around
parsing symbol names to do things like change the EOL convention
preferred for a buffer.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-17  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-13 14:54 utf-16le vs utf-16-le Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-13 19:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-14  5:17   ` Kenichi Handa
2008-04-14  6:10     ` David Kastrup
2008-04-14 18:54       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-14 19:04         ` David Kastrup
2008-04-14 17:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-14 18:57     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-13 22:23 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-14  3:19   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-14  7:32     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-14  8:20       ` David Kastrup
2008-04-14 18:25         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-14 18:46           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-14 21:01             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-14 21:15               ` Andreas Schwab
2008-04-15  0:22                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-15  3:25               ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-15 16:51                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-15 20:09                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-15 20:31                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-15 20:35                       ` David Kastrup
2008-04-16 20:15                     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-16 20:32                       ` David Kastrup
2008-04-17  3:23                         ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2008-04-17  3:26                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-17  7:44                             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-17  8:19                               ` Jan Djärv
2008-04-17 12:41                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-17 17:20                                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-17 18:03                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-16 22:09                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-17  1:14                     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-14 20:20           ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-14 20:58             ` David Kastrup
2008-04-14 22:19               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-14 22:26                 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-14 22:33                   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-15  5:44                     ` David Kastrup
2008-04-15 15:35                       ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-14 21:35             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-14  5:17 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-04-14 13:57   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-14  7:02 ` tomas
2008-04-14 17:45   ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-15  7:38     ` tomas
2008-04-15 22:30       ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-16  3:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-16  8:12           ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-16 13:35             ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-16 14:45               ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-16 17:05                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-16 20:09               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-16 23:17               ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-16 23:42                 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-17  1:03                   ` Kenichi Handa

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