From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MML charset tag regression Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 18:23:23 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <8B17870A-8BA8-11D7-8E1F-00039363E640@swipnet.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053534519 22509 80.91.224.249 (21 May 2003 16:28:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 16:28:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jas@extundo.com, ding@gnus.org, handa@m17n.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1332@lists.math.uh.edu Wed May 21 18:28:33 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19IWOi-0005Mi-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 18:25:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19IWPt-00026S-00; Wed, 21 May 2003 11:26:13 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19IWPk-00026K-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 21 May 2003 11:26:04 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 3252 invoked by alias); 21 May 2003 16:26:03 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 3247 invoked from network); 21 May 2003 16:26:03 -0000 Original-Received: from stubby.bodenonline.com (193.201.16.94) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 21 May 2003 16:26:03 -0000 Original-Received: from accessno42.bodenonline.com (accessno42.bodenonline.com [193.201.16.44]) by stubby.bodenonline.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h4LHEWS3026634; Wed, 21 May 2003 19:14:36 +0200 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52788 gmane.emacs.devel:14049 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:14049 > Can you write a self-contained statement addressed to the GTK people > requesting them to provide better COMPOUND_TEXT handling, and > explaining more specifically what we need and why? We need that, > I think, to make the case to them. I do not understand the issues involved in detail, I do not know what we need and why. In my naive reasoning, Emacs would be fine if it requested UTF8_STRING first and COMPOUND_TEXT second always. This is what the free desktop documents seems to recommend. Or prehaps request TARGETS first to check for UTF8_STRING, and use that if available and something else if not (COMPOUND_STRING, STRING or TEXT in that order?). But then, I am not using any locales that require more than 8-bit characters so I may be off here. Jan D.