From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cut buffers and character encoding Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:41:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87y7qldq6h.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <45537D3A.5080400@swipnet.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163184251 3950 80.91.229.2 (10 Nov 2006 18:44:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:44:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: romain@orebokech.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 10 19:44:09 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 1GibLw-0004Hb-6d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:43:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GibLv-0001Tb-IX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:43:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GibK9-0007nW-DT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:41:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GibK8-0007mH-HU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:41:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GibK8-0007ly-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:41:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GibK8-0002IL-EG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:41:56 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GibK7-0004br-AC; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:41:55 -0500 Original-To: "Jan D." In-reply-to: <45537D3A.5080400@swipnet.se> (jan.h.d@swipnet.se) 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:62048 Archived-At: The text encoding for cut buffers are defined to be ISO-Latin-1, so selection-coding-systemshould not have any effect. That said, we could decode data from cut buffers from Latin-1 and encode to Latin-1 when putting data in there. But cut buffers are obsolete anyway, so I vote for just fixing the documentation and leave it as is. Since people are evidently still using them, I think we may as well fix this.