From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:49:09 -0400 Message-ID: <87siish8vu.fsf@yeeloong.lan> References: <54193A70.9020901@member.fsf.org> <871tql17uw.fsf@yeeloong.lan> <838uktm9gw.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9zgarvp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83y4srjaot.fsf@gnu.org> <83r3yhiu8c.fsf@gnu.org> <83siiw9c6t.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjd3846e.fsf@gnu.org> <8738auyxke.fsf@netris.org> <874mvaoys7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87h9z91y52.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <871tqdpjoi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <874mv91n6a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87zjd1ny1h.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87zjd1z0yl.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8761foy9n0.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413175811 22879 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2014 04:50:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 04:50:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 13 06:50:04 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XdXa7-0003wC-SL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2014 06:50:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60120 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdXa6-0000tA-Rz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54934) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdXZx-0000sz-25 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:50:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdXZp-0005PO-EZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:49:53 -0400 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([96.39.62.75]:38746) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdXZp-0005PA-BT; Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from c-24-62-95-23.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.62.95.23] helo=yeeloong.lan) by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1XdXZi-0003IT-SD; Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:49:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8761foy9n0.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sun, 12 Oct 2014 22:40:51 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.94 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 96.39.62.75 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175306 Archived-At: I wrote: > What you wrote above simply shows your ignorance of Guile. Yes, we use > libunistring for some things, but we do _not_ use it for character > encoding conversions. For that we use iconv, which gives us all the > tools we need to provide Emacs-like behavior. It turns out I was partially mistaken. We use iconv in some places and libunistring in some others. Anyway, it seems that I have lost my temper with David, which is embarrassing. I'd best drop out of this conversation now. Mark