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: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 49 Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:32:14 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3281D3FC-310A-11D7-AF1E-00039363E640@swipnet.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043635234 23696 80.91.224.249 (27 Jan 2003 02:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 02:40:34 +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 18czCI-00069m-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:40:30 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18czGH-0006XA-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 03:44:37 +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 18czCg-0003MD-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:40:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18czBt-0003FW-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:40:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18czAt-00037q-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:39:29 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cz4m-0001py-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:32:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18cz4I-0001rG-00; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:32:14 -0500 Original-To: "Jan D." In-reply-to: <3281D3FC-310A-11D7-AF1E-00039363E640@swipnet.se> (jan.h.d@swipnet.se) Original-cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11107 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11107 Whe I started using e-mail, non-ASCII characters where not handeled well, so my last name was mangeled in all sorts of ways. I just got tired of trying to fix this so I use just the initial. But if there is a policy for this, I can change. Is there any particular encoding or character set that shall be used for this? Changelogs are in iso-2022-7bit. Is that what I must use for user-full-name? user-full-name is a Lisp string. If you set it up as the proper Emacs value, with multibyte characters in it, Emacs will take care of the rest. It doesn't matter what coding system you use to encode your .emacs file. As long as it represents these characters right and Emacs recognizes to use it, you should get the right results.