From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: UCS-2BE Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:57:25 +0900 Message-ID: References: <878xl5x4lr.fsf@jurta.org> <44F6A74A.9040708@gnu.org> <44F6BC5B.8010504@gnu.org> <87ac5ko50j.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157115544 30682 80.91.229.2 (1 Sep 2006 12:59:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 12:59:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp, jasonr@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 01 14:58:59 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GJ8bk-0005VA-A5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:58:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GJ8bj-0008AX-Ua for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:58:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GJ8bV-00086x-Rb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:58:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GJ8bT-00082O-PY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:58:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GJ8bT-00081z-Kb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:58:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [150.29.246.133] (helo=mx1.aist.go.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GJ8lH-0001zP-ML; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:08:44 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp2.aist.go.jp ([150.29.246.12]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id k81CwU8P010481; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 21:58:30 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp2.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id k81CwTLk009435; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 21:58:29 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GJ8aL-0008Jq-00; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:57:25 +0900 Original-To: Andreas Schwab In-reply-to: (message from Andreas Schwab on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:30:35 +0200) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/22.0.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:59223 Archived-At: In article , Andreas Schwab writes: > Kenichi Handa writes: > > By the way, why do people want such many variants... sigh... > Actually, sane people only want UTF-8. :-) Actually, UTF-8 is not that sane nowadays because it may have BOM . I read Unicode 4.1 but it doesn't define how to treat the heading byte sequence of UTF-8. It says, in short, "be careful"!!! Sigh... Is the situation somehow improved in Unicode 5.0? --- Kenichi Handa handa@m17n.org