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: iso-8859-1 and non-latin-1 chars Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 10:47:18 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038844167 17733 80.91.224.249 (2 Dec 2002 15:49:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 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 18Isp3-0004bi-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:49:25 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18Isy8-0006y0-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:58:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Isnn-0006UR-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 10:48:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Isn4-0006JH-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 10:47:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Isn2-0006J3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 10:47:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Isn2-0006Iv-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 10:47:20 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18Isn0-0007Zb-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 10:47:18 -0500 Original-To: d.love@dl.ac.uk, handa@etl.go.jp In-reply-to: (message from Dave Love on 28 Nov 2002 17:01:59 +0000) 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:9790 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9790 > 2002-11-18 Kenichi Handa <[13]handa@m17n.org> > > * language/cyrillic.el (cyrillic-iso-8bit): Make it safe. ... I think this is the wrong thing to do. As rms said, it's a user-visible change that affects more than Ispell. It breaks the principle that Emacs tries to avoid losing information in coding conversions (whereas XEmacs readily trashes data). It would do that if users explicitly specify these coding systems by name and if Emacs fails, when they subsequently save the file, to warn that it can't handle all the characters. Emacs normally does warn when the coding system doesn't handle all the characters in the file. Is there a common scenario where that warning is bypassed?