From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 10:21:15 -0400 Message-ID: <87odyfnqcj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: <17491.34779.959316.484740@parhasard.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146666105 7455 80.91.229.2 (3 May 2006 14:21:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 14:21:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kehoea@parhasard.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 03 16:21:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbIEO-0000ro-Oy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 16:21:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbIEO-0004rd-3q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 10:21:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FbIED-0004rV-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 10:21:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FbIEB-0004r6-1f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 10:21:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbIEA-0004r3-Ss for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 10:21:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.184] (helo=tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FbIEX-0002kf-JA; Wed, 03 May 2006 10:21:41 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.53.194.38]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060503142115.BGUV10262.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Wed, 3 May 2006 10:21:15 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7BB70D865D; Wed, 3 May 2006 10:21:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 03 May 2006 11:47:27 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:53849 Archived-At: >> I think, at least, CJK characters should be decoded into one >> of CJK charsets because there's no other charsets. > Right, but what about Cyrillic and Greek? The merits and demerits of > depending on utf-fragment-on-decoding are not clear when the Lisp > reader is involved. I think we should treat them as much as possible consistently with the rest of the treatment of unicode chars. If we start down the path of "OK, we can do it like this for those chars but not these, oh and as for those ones over there, we'll do it yet some other way", I think we're headed for headaches with no real benefit. Stefan