From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request: multibyte user-full-name
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:07:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mzft813o.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m27j6xww7d.wl%shinra@j10n.org> (AIDA Shinra's message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:18:14 +0900")
>> Anyway, as far as a system allows users to switch locale, I
>> think, pw_gecos must adopt locale-independent encoding, thus
>> the possible encoding is one of UTF-*. And, considering
>> backward compatibility, it should be UTF-8. Then, how about
>> we always decode it by utf-8 (only if it contains a byte
>> with MSB set) while falling back to locale-coding-system
>> (invalid utf-8 sequence is found), and see if that works on
>> any systems?
That sounds like a reasonable plan.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-14 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-12 7:35 Feature request: multibyte user-full-name AIDA Shinra
2006-03-14 1:48 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-03-14 3:18 ` AIDA Shinra
2006-03-14 4:54 ` Zhang Wei
2006-03-14 6:22 ` Miles Bader
2006-03-14 5:44 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-03-14 16:17 ` AIDA Shinra
2006-03-14 16:07 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-03-20 4:47 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-03-14 22:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-15 7:46 ` Jan D.
2006-03-19 6:12 ` AIDA Shinra
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