From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthew Carter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: character sets as they relate to =?utf-8?B?w6LigqzFk1Jhd8Oi?= =?utf-8?B?4oKs?= string literals for elisp Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2021 23:48:23 -0400 Organization: Ahungry (http://ahungry.com) Message-ID: <87zgrmyfso.fsf_-_@ahungry.com> References: <4209edd83cfee7c84b2d75ebfcd38784fa21b23c.camel@crossproduct.net> <87v92ft9z6.fsf@db48x.net> <87o885tyle.fsf@db48x.net> <83k0it6lu5.fsf@gnu.org> <87k0isu7hz.fsf_-_@db48x.net> <8335pg62kh.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11051"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: db48x@db48x.net, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, anna@crossproduct.net, Yuri Khan To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 06 05:50:27 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mXxwo-0002gz-RO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 05:50:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40954 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mXxwn-00021C-3C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2021 23:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36080) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mXxvR-0001JO-F7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2021 23:49:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.ahungry.com ([69.164.215.200]:38376) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mXxvP-0002YL-VM; Tue, 05 Oct 2021 23:49:01 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (ahu.ahungry.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ahungry.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0751F1F6DE0; Wed, 6 Oct 2021 03:48:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from mail.ahungry.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ahu.ahungry.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id z-HVJSST7gf6; Wed, 6 Oct 2021 03:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from blub (c-68-51-134-46.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.51.134.46]) by mail.ahungry.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 694A91F6DA6; Wed, 6 Oct 2021 03:48:51 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:20:59 -0400") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=69.164.215.200; envelope-from=m@ahungry.com; helo=mail.ahungry.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:276404 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > > > PS: it occurs to me to wonder if my use of Unicode in the prose o= f this > > > > message, outside of the examples, detracted from its readability = in any > > > > way? > > > > > > If someone is reading this on a text-mode terminal, it could. > > > We should probably invent a term more accurate than =E2=80=9Ctext-mode > > terminal=E2=80=9D for things that fail to display text. > > The usual term for these terminals is "Linux consoles" or "ttys". > Let's use those -- they are well-known and specific. On my tty (rxvt-unicode) in which I am reading this via 'emacs -nw', I'm unable to see most the non-ASCII characters, they simply show up as unfilled white rectangles due to lack of support in my current font set. --=20 Matthew Carter (m@ahungry.com) http://ahungry.com