From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Several serious problems Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 20:01:55 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200208190748.QAA14278@etlken.m17n.org> <200208291325.WAA03596@etlken.m17n.org> <200208291732.g7THWRU11411@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030925371 18237 127.0.0.1 (2 Sep 2002 00:09:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 00:09:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, handa@etl.go.jp, keichwa@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17lemX-0004jv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 02:09:29 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17lfKV-0005Db-00 for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2002 02:44:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17leo2-0002el-00; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 20:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17lefG-0001pp-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 20:01:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17lefD-0001pI-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 20:01:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17lefD-0001pC-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 20:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 17lefD-0003IQ-00; Sun, 01 Sep 2002 20:01:55 -0400 Original-To: d.love@dl.ac.uk In-Reply-To: (message from Dave Love on 31 Aug 2002 18:30:42 +0100) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:7297 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7297 Why just Latin-N, and why just as utf-8? I am talking about that issue because that is the issue someone raised. I don't know what other issue there is. Could you tell us? There shouldn't be anything special about Latin. Latin-N character sets are very important in practice. It is also possible that they are easier to handle than some other character sets (but I don't know whether that is the case here). Those two factors are directly relevant to whether it is worth fixing this case in RC. The factors might be different for another character set. Is it also a bug that utf-8 can't encode the CJK space or that the CJK sets can't encode equivalent characters from other sets (which I haven't tried to address and people probably don't care about)? That is certainly a bug. The question is whether this bug may not be worth fixing in RC.