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From: Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org>
Subject: Re: eight-bit char handling in emacs-unicode
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:03:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ptfsgxto.fsf@emacswiki.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilu1xsas57e.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 15 Nov 2003 04:04:05 +0100")

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Characters aren't numbers (unless within the internal
> representation, but the internal representation should be hidden),

As far as I understand the Emacs design philosophy, we don't believe
that internal representation should be hidden.  If it is not hidden,
we can easily write code to modify it without having to recompile
Emacs.   But that's just an aside.  :)

Alex.
-- 
http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/
There is no substitute for experience.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-16 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-12 16:11 BIG5-HKSCS? Simon Josefsson
2003-11-13  1:53 ` BIG5-HKSCS? Kenichi Handa
2003-11-13  4:14   ` BIG5-HKSCS? Simon Josefsson
2003-11-13  5:34     ` BIG5-HKSCS? Kenichi Handa
2003-11-13  5:50       ` BIG5-HKSCS? Simon Josefsson
2003-11-13  4:49   ` BIG5-HKSCS? Simon Josefsson
2003-11-13  6:10     ` BIG5-HKSCS? Kenichi Handa
2003-11-13  6:51       ` BIG5-HKSCS? Simon Josefsson
2003-11-13  9:01         ` BIG5-HKSCS? Kenichi Handa
2003-11-13 13:29           ` BIG5-HKSCS? Oliver Scholz
2003-11-13 23:40             ` BIG5-HKSCS? Kenichi Handa
2003-11-14 13:35               ` BIG5-HKSCS? Oliver Scholz
2003-11-13 16:34           ` BIG5-HKSCS? Simon Josefsson
2003-11-14  0:47             ` eight-bit char handling in emacs-unicode Kenichi Handa
2003-11-14 13:25               ` Oliver Scholz
2003-11-15  1:09                 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-11-15 10:26                   ` Oliver Scholz
2003-11-15 21:47                     ` Simon Josefsson
2003-11-15  3:04               ` Simon Josefsson
2003-11-16 15:03                 ` Alex Schroeder [this message]
2003-11-17 21:17               ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-18  7:33                 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-11-18 17:12                   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-19  0:06                     ` Kenichi Handa
2003-11-19  3:05                       ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-19 10:46                         ` Juri Linkov
2003-11-19 13:48                           ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-20 23:41                           ` Kenichi Handa
2003-11-21  0:41                         ` Kenichi Handa
2003-11-21  5:27                           ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-21  6:27                             ` Kenichi Handa
2003-11-21 14:59                               ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-22  1:25                                 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-11-22 23:53                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-23  7:30                                     ` Kenichi Handa
2003-11-23 23:48                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-25  1:07                                         ` Kenichi Handa
     [not found]                                           ` <jwvfzgcsbuv.fsf-monnier+emacs/devel@vor.iro.umontreal.ca>
2003-11-26  0:07                                             ` Kenichi Handa
2003-11-26 14:14                                               ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-27  1:34                                                 ` Kenichi Handa
2003-11-27 14:23                                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-01  0:43                                                     ` Kenichi Handa
2003-12-01 16:15                                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2003-12-02 13:07                                                         ` Kenichi Handa
2003-12-02 16:06                                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-25  4:28                                         ` Richard Stallman
     [not found]                                     ` <jwv7k1gtswz.fsf-monnier+emacs/devel@vor.iro.umontreal.ca>
2003-12-09 21:49                                       ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-15 22:32       ` BIG5-HKSCS? Simon Josefsson
2003-11-17  1:12         ` BIG5-HKSCS? Kenichi Handa
2003-11-17  2:06           ` BIG5-HKSCS? Simon Josefsson
2003-11-17  5:45             ` BIG5-HKSCS? Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-17  7:43               ` BIG5-HKSCS? Simon Josefsson
2003-11-18  7:01                 ` BIG5-HKSCS? Richard Stallman
2003-11-18  8:56                   ` BIG5-HKSCS? Simon Josefsson
2003-11-19  5:15                     ` BIG5-HKSCS? Richard Stallman
2003-11-20  5:48                       ` BIG5-HKSCS? Simon Josefsson
2003-11-20  5:56                         ` BIG5-HKSCS? Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-20  6:20                           ` BIG5-HKSCS? Simon Josefsson

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