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: Improvements to `(emacs)File Variables' Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:48:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <878y942l8h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <20041114232600.GA12968@fencepost> <87r7mw0zik.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <20041114235558.GA18975@fencepost> <87lld40xve.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100624190 13171 80.91.229.6 (16 Nov 2004 16:56:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:56:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, overlord@gmx.li Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 16 17:56:19 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CU6ct-00076e-00 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:56:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CU6le-0000ve-2P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:05:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CU6hE-0007Qy-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:00:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CU6hB-0007Q8-8S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:00:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CU6h8-0007P4-WD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:00:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CU6Wp-0000Ra-EM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:50:03 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CU6Vj-0002LZ-Q6; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:48:55 -0500 Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:53:14 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29931 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29931 As I've posted before, I think "unibyte" strings/buffers should be only an optimization, and should have an explicit (8-bit) encoding associated with them, so that any conversions to/from multibyte can automatically do the correct thing; one of these encoding could of course be "binary", which maybe would allow the historical usage of unibyte to be preserved. It might be possible to make this work, but the current handling is not broken, so I don't want to make such a big change in it. There are more important parts of Emacs to improve, even after the next release.